EMC: shake, rattle and roll
EMC looks to be single-handedly reinventing the industry. And creating a new one as well. They just topped Fortune's list of most admired computer peripherals companies, beating out NetApp. They bought Pi Corporation, snagging Paul Maritz, longtime Microsoftie, and...
Cleversafe’s dispersed storage network
I had a con call with Chris Gladwin and Russ Kennedy of Cleversafe a couple of weeks ago. They've come to market with a product line that seeks to deliver: Massive scalability to meet growing digital content requirements Unprecedented Security and Privacy for critical...
NetApp’s research offensive
After last year's publication of the Google and CMU papers on the much-higher-than-expected annual failure rates of disk drives, StorageMojo challenged vendors to respond. I said The industry has an excellent opportunity to move to greater transparency with storage...
Why do storage systems fail?
It's the disks, right? We've heard much about disk failures - as recently as last week as well as last year's reports from Google and CMU. But what about the rest of the system? In a FAST '08 paper to be presented this week - Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for...
StorageMojo update
Nothing major if you're wondering. IDG You should be seeing higher quality advertising. IDG, the folks who publish everything that ends in "world" like PC World, Computerworld and Macworld have put together a network of mostly IDG content and selected independent...
What’s with Isilon?
They haven't reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO and put founder Sujal Patel in his place. And NetApp was trying to strangle baby Isilon (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are they...
Apple’s Xserve RAID bites the dust
StorageMojo reported last June 19th a rumor that Apple's Xserve RAID would bite the dust. And now, exactly 8 months later, they've pulled the plug. I saw a wall of Xserves and Xserve RAIDs at NAB last year and they were, without a doubt, the prettiest server/storage...
Latent sector errors in disk drives
Last year's Google and CMU papers on disk failure rates (see Everything you know about disks is wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience) made the points that a) annual disk failure rates are significantly higher than manufacturers admit and b) that enterprise...
Protein quantum dot optical next gen storage
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will give us 10 TB 2.5" disks in the next decade. But then what? Optical protein-based quantum dots could be the answer. Scientists...
Atrato: High-performance, high-density storage
Got an interesting press release this morning about a Denver-area company, Atrato, announcing its existence and $18 million in funding. Their mission: Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc.’s (www.atrato-Inc.com) mission is to help companies in entertainment,...
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