Isilon’s Q4 Results
I'm not a stock analyst, so don't do anything stupid on my account That said I see a lot to like in Isilon's Q4 results. Not that their loss widened to $10.4 million, or 72 cents a share, from a year-earlier loss of $4.08 million, or 78 cents a share. Nor that...
The Coming Hard Landing in Data Storage
Imagine, if you will, a profitable and growing industry. Since it is profitable and growing, the key industry players keep investing, producing new variants to keep buyers interested. Buyers are interested, so sales keep rising. And then one day demand flattens and...
Updated EMC Price List Now Online
Click on the "Price Lists" link above in the navigation bar, or click here to go the Price Lists page. Then select the EMC price list. Enjoy. Comments welcome, as always.
“Magic” i.e. Appears Impossible
Or maybe it is just a really advanced technology Dell has just been anointed a "leader" in mid-range enterprise storage. By Gartner! Gartner's Magic Quadrant Companies are just as insecure and twitchy as people are, especially public traded ones. Dell's been on a...
Lost In Space: Man’s First Step On the Moon
People of a certain age remember when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and a large percentage of us were watching the live broadcast of man's first step to the lunar surface. The picture was fuzzy and grainy, and the audio was none too good either. But you could see and...
Samsung’s Biggest Competitor Is Samsung
Samsung has been leading the charge for large capacity flash drives with their 32 GB announcements and their relentless cutting of flash chip prices. And it looks like their biggest competitor for 1.8" drives will be - Samsung. The new 60 GB 1.8" drive Samsung's new...
Lab Report: Unsupported OEM Dual-Layer DVD Burner on a Mac
I love the product reviews on sites like Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica and AnandTech There is something irrationally satisfying about getting a lot of details and test results on a product that, more likely than not, I will never use. So I've decided to write a...
Jim Gray Missing At Sea
Update: A great article summarizing both the search for Jim and the ways in which Jim's own research enabled the search over at Scientific American. Update II Some great background on how Amazon's Mechanical Turk helped coordinate 560,000 jobs in the search, at All...
Isilon’s Cluster Technology. Pt. 2.0
Metadata data structures The basic insight of Isilon's cluster is that they manage files on a pool of blocks. What we know as RAID levels exist on a per file basis, not per array. Unlike Google's GFS, which only does file replication, Isilon does file replication...
Isilon’s Cluster Technology. Pt. 1.0
Unexpectedly, this has turned into Isilon Week here at the StorageMojo. I think everyone is excited by Isilon's successful IPO, the first, I hope, of many for other storage startups. I've already commented on Isilon's surprisingly uninformative website. They have cool...
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