3Leaf’s virtual I/O system
First there was data center consolidation, then server, then storage and now . . . I/O consolidation. Stealth no more 3Leaf is exiting stealth mode, officially, tomorrow, but they put up their new website over the weekend, so they're fair game. Incorporated with a...
Cool stuff at SNW
NAB made a big impression on me I've been putting off writing about SNW because I've been busy. I still am. But the successful procrastinator has to use every excuse possible, and writing about SNW is my last one. Paul Calleja Paul is responsible for delivering HPC...
Mo’ better ZFS performance stats
I don't plan this stuff, it just happens Guess this is turning into ZFS performance week at StorageMojo. Now we get to see how HW RAID 10 compares to software ZFS RAID 10. This comes in a fine report from Robert Milkowski's milek's blog. It is part of a continuing...
New ZFS performance numbers
My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to Mark Round's site with new ZFS performance numbers. Thanks to Storage Forum for the link that caught Walter's eye. Here's some storage eye-candy The performance comparison is between UFS and ZFS on...
Life is a sequential access workload
I saw the future at NAB No, it isn't a storage company. Or a system company. It is a workload. The dominant storage workload of the 21st century. Large file sizes, bandwidth intensive, sequential reads and writes. What about OLTP, small random reads and writes? Not...
Hot new 10Gb switch will shake up storage networks
This morning Woven Systems announced their new 10 Gbit Ethernet switch. I named Woven "coolest hardware" at last years Datacenter Ventures conference. Harry Quackenboss, their CEO, promised they'd have the switch working in six months. Well, here it is a mere seven...
Responding to Marc Farley of EqualLogic
Last week my friend and fellow storage blogger Mark Farley took me to task for posting Desktop RAID is a bad idea. He wrote in his EqualLogic blog post: Two posts ago I sent my props to Robin Harris (Storagemojo), now I'm feeling the bloggers biteback. Robin - what...
Su IP, mi IP!
After you sign over everything you own, we can be friends The folks over at Redmond Channel Partner ["partner" sounds so much better than "lackey", don't you think?] report on a Japanese anti-trust investigation of Microsoft. The issue: intellectual property (IP)....
Flash’s First Victim?
Fujitsu's 1.8" drive bites the dust Claiming competition from flash, Fujitsu announced it was halting development of its own 1.8" drive. Fujitsu is retreating from a market they hadn't yet entered, which is not the same as an established player quitting. But Fujitsu...
Oracle now on StorageMojo’s price list page
There's been a fair amount of interest in the VMware and Documentum price lists, so I thought I'd go a little further afield and offer an Oracle price list. Maybe an Oracle customer could explain how to configure their products. Seems complicated. Enjoy.
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