De-duplicating primary storage
NetApp is announcing a deal today: use their de-dup software with a new NetApp filer for VMware storage and they guarantee that you'll need a minimum of 50% less storage. You can be sure that NetApp considers 50% a low bar - 80% is more like it. Why not for most...
YottaNotta
StorageMojo has been informed that YottaYotta, a storage networking company that EMC invested in a couple of years ago has shut down. EMC reportedly scooped up the IP and key employees. I once worked there and hold stock in the company. The YY web site is not opening....
StorageMojo in San Diego Monday
Sorry for the short notice, but I'll be in San Diego Monday the 22nd. If you have a company or a storage research project you'd like to show me, please send me a note or leave a comment. I like to see what people are up to. The StorageMojo take With the UCSD storage...
Are there economies of scale in storage?
The assumption that underlies much of the interest in cloud computing is that there are economies of scale. If there are not, the extra costs of bandwidth and latency will make cloud computing too costly. Ever since Google demonstrated that massive infrastructures...
SNIA reprise online
I gave a keynote at the last SNIA Symposium about the impact of 5 new datacenter technologies: 2.5" drives flash SSDs guaranteed uptime storage 10 gigE Cloud storage Then last week I gave a reprise of the presentation to the SNIA end-user council. Whelming demand In...
Our changing file workloads
StorageMojo has long held the view that our storage workloads are changing: more file storage, less block storage; larger file sizes; and cooler data. While all the indicators said this was happening it's good to find a study that confirmed this intuition. In the...
StorageMojo live! Today!
In glorious lo-fi monaural! Sterling opportunity to blow another precious hour of your work life in the guise of "continuing education." Dial-in for a reprise of the keynote I gave at the SNIA summer symposium in San Jose. 5 technologies in search of a data center...
The view from StorageMojo
A global village in the mountains Did you notice the new header picture this week? No? That's OK. I enjoy taking the pictures anyway. But this picture is from StorageMojo's new global HQ. There is a spacious office - or it will be once the boxes are emptied - and...
XIV: eXtremely Inexplicable Value
I've been trying to get my head wrapped around IBM's new XIV product - and not having much luck. When the acquisition was announced Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM system storage, said it would ". . . put IBM in the best position to address emerging storage...
Fat trees and skinny switches
Jim Gray, in his paper Distributed Computing Economics, (pdf) noted that there is a rough price parity between 10 bytes of network traffic and a megabyte of disk bandwidth. One of his conclusions: computing has to be as close to the data as possible in order to avoid...
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