Punctuated equilibrium in the digital universe
Mobile computing. Cloud computing. Client-server computing. Green computing. A new mainframe. A 9U supercomputer. Scale-out clusters. High-bandwidth RAID controllers. Multi-core processors. Massive memory servers. Facebook. YouTube. Twitter. Blogging. MySpace. Google...
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Will FCoE save storage networks?
Back in '96, when I was flogging FC networks for Sun under NDA, the most common objection was "I don't want another layer to manage." Despite that FC became successful in big enterprise IT shops. But the objection is still valid and a major factor, with price, in the...
SOHO backup that works: why is it so hard?
Moving to a small town in northern Arizona from Silicon Valley has enriched my perspective on many things, including how the industry develops products. The consensus is that if we take datacenter technology and put in enough defaults it will be "simple" enough for...
P4P: smart, fast and easy P2P
The P4P working group demo'd their work Friday at the Distributed Computing Industry Association show in New York. Not only did they show 2-3x faster downloads, but they also cut the average number of inter-metro hops - the expensive kind - from over 5 to less than 1....
StorageMojo’s favorite FAST 08 paper
It didn't win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 - IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy...
NetApp’s new name: NetApp
NetApp has formally changed its name from Network Appliance Inc to NetApp Inc. The name change is part of a larger effort to raise their awareness among what they call the Storage 5000 - the 5000 largest storage customers worldwide. I'm in NYC today and tomorrow at...
Flash futures
How flash is really going to affect the storage industry is becoming clear. The short take: not as big a deal as flash vendors hoped. The longer take: There won't be much of a mid-range flash market; instead we'll see either costly fast flash or cheap slow flash....
Flash talking – and a wee DRAM – with Texas Memory Systems
I ran into Woody Hutsell, EVP at Texas Memory Systems, last week. He graciously agreed to a talk on camera about their experience with flash and DRAM-based solid state storage. TMS sells both: a DRAM-based SSD with multiple FC and Infiniband ports; and a 2 TB flash...
Isilon update
A week after writing What's with Isilon they announced revised results for several past quarters. In a long and boring press release the company discussed the impact. The money quote: he Company estimates that $7.0 million of the approximately $67.4 million of...
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