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...

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...