Nantero NRAM: ARM’d and dangerous
Intel's 3D XPoint non-volatile RAM has sucked up most of the attention in the NVRAM space, but Nantero's NRAM has taken a giant step forward. So far forward that Intel may get ARM'd again if they aren't careful. NRAM? Nantero is the 15 year old startup pioneering...
Notes on VMworld 2016
Spent the day on the show floor at Vmworld 2016 in sunny Las Vegas. Saw some interesting things. Panzuraa now offers byte-range locking on their global collaboration platform. They've been having great success in the Autodesk Revit market. M&E seems like a natural as...
VMworld next week
The StorageMojo crack analyst team is busy polishing their cowboy boots and ironing their jeans to get respectable (why now?) for next week's VMworld in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is a short - by Western standards - 4 to 5 hour drive from the high pastures of northern...
Excel may be dangerous to your health – and your nation
Over on ZDNet I've been doing a series looking at the issues we face incorporating Big Data into our digital civilization (see When Big Data is bad data, Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell, and Humans are the weak link in Big Data. I'm not done yet, but I...
NetApp’s surprising Q1
NetApp's Q1 was a happy surprise for Wall Street: earnings blew past estimates and the stock spiked over 16%. But the quarterly 8k report was more downbeat. Product revenues Net revenue was down $41 million year over year. Products the company calls Strategic -...
World’s largest manufacturer of vinyl records
A story from the byways of data storage. Vinyl audio records have been making something of a comeback. Fans prefer the sound, and DJs like to "scratch" them, which is pretty cool the first hundred times you hear it. A series of pieces in the UK paper the Guardian,...
Flash Memory Summit next week
And sad to say, for the first time in years, StorageMojo won't be there. Dang it! A physical condition is cramping my style. It's temporary and will be fixed by early next year. So I'll be looking for whatever gets posted online, but missing the show floor. The...
A look at Symbolic IO’s patents
Maybe you saw the hype: Symbolic IO is the first computational defined storage solution solely focused on advanced computational algorithmic compute engine, which materializes and dematerializes data – effectively becoming the fastest, most dense, portable and...
Bandwidth reduction for erasure coded storage
In response to Building fast erasure coded storage, alert readers Petros Koutoupis and Ian F. Adams noted that advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) isn't typically CPU limited. The real problem is network bandwidth. It turns out that the same team that...
Building fast erasure coded storage
One of the decade's grand challenges in storage is making efficient advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) fast enough to displace most file servers. Advanced erasure codes can give users the capability to survive four or more device failures - be they disks,...
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