Sun’s storage announcement
Let's take it from the top What is behind the decision to fold Sun's storage group into the server group? I'll quote from Jonathan Schwartz's blog and analyze. Mr. Schwartz has hold of a serious idea here: if Sun were competitive in storage it would be a profitable...
Hurtin’ Hitachi
They bought IBM's business, not the brand Things aren't good when an unsourced report claims Hitachi is selling its loss-making disk and the stock rises 7% in the biggest 1 day percentage gain in 4 years. Hitachi denied it. Sounds like the bankers are trying to get...
Fusion-io – great demo. Now comes the hard part.
Several readers have asked Boy, do the Fusion-io guys give a good demo! Now if only they can ship a product. I like startups. People putting their heart and soul into an idea that rarely turns out as well as they hoped. As is said of 2nd marriages, the triumph of hope...
Sun’s adds Lustre to supercomputing
What about Sun's acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc.? Yawn. CFSI was going out of business. Sun bought the assets, not the company. Good for CFSI employees They get a paycheck from a solvent company. They may even get some sensible marketing. Hey, it could...
Parascale launches Google-like storage software
Yay! Parascale (parallel scale) launched its beta Virtual Storage Network this week. I've done some consulting for them so I won't pretend to be objective. I'm a big fan of software-based storage clusters no matter who makes them. GFS-like is more accurate You can...
EMC buys leader in telekinetic security
Time to get serious, guys TechCrunch and VNUnet are reporting that EMC is buying online backup provider Mozy for $76 million. Neither EMC or Mozy has issued any confirmation, so who knows if it is real. But let's assume it is. Puzzled? This is a good fit for EMC on...
Flash vs disk at DISKCON 2007
The tension was real The disk guys acknowledged that flash has killed the sub-1.8" drive market. Will 1.8" drives be next? The flash guys acknowledged that they have a huge economic problem: heavy seasonality of demand. Consumer demand drives a Q4 peak in flash sales....
CERN’s data corruption research
I was surprised at how many ZDnet readers reacted with disbelief to my recent Storage Bits series on data corruption (see How data gets lost, 50 ways to lose your data and How Microsoft puts your data at risk), claiming it had never happened to them. Then I thought...
StorageMojo@DISKCON USA 2007 this week
I'm attending the IDEMA show this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center this Wednesday and Thursday. Flash news Flash technology and its integration into disks and application devices are a big topic this year. I've noted here and on Storage Bits that flash isn't...
EMC’s page 1 Wall Street Journal story
I'm sure Tucci would have preferred another topic I'm not going to talk about the strip clubs, showgirls painted with EMC's initials - "Mr. Fredrickson [EMC spokesman] says the initials EMC were on the showgirls' thighs, not their derrières" - or the whipped cream....
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