WD is not a disk drive company – and not a moment too soon
While you weren't looking Western Digital stopped being a hard drive company, morphing into a storage company. Such transitions are nothing new for a company that started life making calculator chips in the 1970s, morphed into SCSI, ATA and graphics in the 80s, and...
Scale and the all-flash datacenter
There's a gathering vendor storm pushing the all-flash datacenter as a solution to datacenter ills, such as high personnel costs and performance bottlenecks. There's some truth to this, but its application is counter-intuitive. Most of the time, storage innovations...
Why storage is getting simpler
Goodbye, old bottleneck StorageMojo has often asked buyers to focus on latency rather than IOPS thanks to SSDs making IOPS cheap and plentiful. This naturally leads to a focus on I/O stack latency, which multiple vendors are attacking. But what are the implications of...
Storage surprises at NAB 2016
I did NAB a little differently this year: attended on Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the floor exhibits. Definitely easier, although many of the execs left Wednesday. But that wasn't a surprise. Here's what did surprise me: EMC seemed to have less of...
NABster 2016
Tomorrow the top StorageMojo superforecasting analysts are saddling up for the long ride to the glittering runways of Las Vegas. The target: NAB 2016. As much as I like CES, NAB is my favorite mighty tradeshow. It is toy show for people with very large budgets - and...
Superforecasting
I see a forecast in your future A few months ago I wrote about the best single metric for measuring marketing. That metric: It’s the forecast, when compared to actuals. If the forecast is accurate to ±3%, you’ve got great marketing. If ±10% you’ve got good...
Smart storage for big data
IBM researchers are proposing - and demoing - an intelligent storage system that works something like your brain. It's based on the idea that it's easier to remember important, like a sunset over the Grand Canyon, than the last time you waited for a traffic light....
Hike blogging: Soldiers Pass
If you've been wondering why the dearth of hike blogging the last few months, wonder no more: I wasn't hiking. A nasty bug made its way through Arizona and I caught it, thought I shook it, went to CES, and relapsed, big time. So I've been taking it easy. But I've...
Qumulo comes of age
Qumulo is crossing the chasm: they have 50 paying customers with over 40PB in production. Real production, not POCs. That includes clusters from 4 nodes to more than 20 nodes with over 4PB at a large telco. They practice agile development with 24 software releases in...
Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory
What is Software Defined Memory? A converged memory and storage architecture that enables applications to access storage as if it was memory and memory as if it was storage Unlike most of the software defined x menagerie, SDM isn't simply another layer that...
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