StorageMojo at FAST 2008
Join me in San Jose, CA, February 26–29, 2008, for the latest in File And Storage Technologies. Top researchers from academe and industry - NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Data Domain, HP, Panasas, Yahoo, Seagate and more - will present their latest research. [Doesn't EMC...
White House data loss
What's wrong with White House backup? I published a review of David Gewirtz's book Where Have All the Emails Gone? over on ZDnet. A quick overview: The White House may or may not have lost 5 million emails. They aren't sure. Gewirtz, an email expert, started...
Set phasers to “change”
Flash may be getting all the attention, but the boffins are working hard to ensure we have options to flash. We need those options because flash has some serious limitations, like random write performance and density, that we may not be able to overcome. On the other...
Flash performance update
Update on mobile flash performance Mikko Pitkanen over at the mobile development blog Delay ToleraNt posted some more tests on Nokia N800's flash performance. He's a doctoral candidate at the Helsinki Institute of Physics at CERN in Switzerland with a strong interest...
What was Ray Ozzie thinking?
I wrote a first pass on the Microsoft/Yahoo for ZDnet yesterday morning. Short version: are they nuts? The silliest comment Ray Ozzie was quoted saying: Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has...
Isilon increases their IQ
Despite being written off for dead . . . Isilon's been putting their IPO money to good use: engineering the next gen of their platform that they've named the X-series. In the meantime they've been adding customers - over 600 so far - and they have 60 customers running...
Cloud computing is foggy thinking
A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book - a sign of the Apocalypse . IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is...
Disk-based archive vs disk-based storage
What's the difference? I came across a thoughtful essay on the "Top Ten Differences between Disk-based Archive & Disk-based Storage" in the MatrixStore blog. MatrixStore is a Mac cluster-based disk archive for Apple's to-be-announced-RSN Final Cut Server. MatrixStore...
A stroll down memory lane: HP’s 2004 storage grid vision
What could be more appropriate? HP's lackluster showing in The Info Pro's survey - see yesterday's post - reminded me that I'd written about HP shortly after after I'd started blogging (see HP's Storage Grid-lock: panic-stricken execs promise fix in four years)....
Vendors beware: the buyers are restless
A recent study by The Info Pro research firm suggests that some seismic shifts are underway. Is EMC losing top-of-mind recognition in the data center? Are mid-size enterprises more likely to embrace new technology? In an article in Data Storage Connection, TIP talks...
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