ILM: Damned With Faint Praise
The redoubtable John Webster, storage analyst extraordinaire at Illuminata, penned a short defense of Information Lifecycle Management last week. It was so humble that I just wanted to take this frail orphan named ILM home and feed it sparrow's milk with an...
A Big SSD Vendor Begs To Differ
The good people at Texas Memory Systems read StorageMojo.com and at my invitation offered this response to my post An SSD For The Rest Of Us. I think they did a pretty good job of laying out the, IMHO, historically under-appreciated RAM SSD. Naturally I have a couple...
“Host Bust Adapters White Paper From Emulex . . .”
Host Bust Adapters White Paper From Emulex and Byte and Switch That was the subject line of a Byte and Switch email this morning. Clever marketing effort to make storage sexier? Or overworked, underpaid intern fatigue? You be the judge. In the interest of technical...
An SSD For The Rest Of Us
After I hit the "publish" button for yesterday's SSD article I started thinking of additional things to add: I sent a note off to Texas Memory Systems asking them to respond if they'd like. They graciously said they would, so I'm waiting. Clearly though, their...
RAM-based SSD’s Are Toast – Yippie ki-yay!
Flash memory does most of what current RAM-based Solid State Disks (SSD) do, and it does it without requiring battery-backup, big power supplies or noisy fans. Plus it is cheaper. So, I started to wonder, with the advent of Samsung's 32GB SSD are we seeing the...
EMC’s Legato Network Supports ZFS
From the Networker 7.3.2 Service Pack announcement: • Support for Sun ZFS for improved support for customers running Solaris 10 We're not actually endorsing ZFS you see This is just to take care of our many loyal Solaris 10 customers. I don't care why they do it -...
MojoPac Vitualizes a PC On USB Storage
Several companies are in the business of providing software that turns a USB thumb drive, or iPod, into a simple way to carry your own data and programs for use on any PC. Today, one of them Ringcube, hit the PR jackpot with a largely favorable review in the Wall...
Big Network Storage Cache From Gear6
Gear6 goes semi-public today with their new network storage cache, saying what the product does, but not releasing configuration, pricing and other key details until later. So some of my questions, and probably yours, remain unanswered. Here's the Cliff Notes version....
Efficient Resource Allocation in SOA’s – Pt II
In part I some of the reasons the current model of enterprise IT is broken were explored. In the concluding part, I make a radical suggestion about how IT can be fixed - and why Internet Data Centers are better positioned to implement the fix and perhaps force...
StorageMojo Consulting – Open For Business
Putting out my shingle I've been consulting for several years now. I love it because I get to help people solve a lot more interesting problems than any single job I've ever had. Since I've chosen to live out in the boonies (see photo above), I launched...
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