The Low-End Streetfight
Almost two years ago I wrote about the catfight between disk and flash (see The Limits of Flash). It's an entertaining market because we get to see the cut and thrust of the disk vs. semiconductor brawl at its rawest. I marveled then at thumb drive prices that were...
Sto’Mo Mashup: Wikipedia, Buffer Bandits, Tape Encryption, Flashtopia
Good dialog between Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Encyclopedia Britannica's Dale Hoiberg in today's Wall Street Journal (free version, I think). They dance around the subject of massive storage and cheap internet publishing - both of which enable StorageMojo.com - while...
More Datacenter Ventures Cool Companies
My original idea was simply to go throught the 66 presenting companies and look at the interesting ones. Problem: there are too many interesting companies! Which is a nice problem to have. So I'm going to skim a little lighter over the field and try to focus on the...
Congrats to Sun & Seagate: WSJ Tech Innovation Winners
The Wall Street Journal announced (subscription required, I think) its annual tech award winners today, and I'm pleased to see that both Sun and Seagate got recognized for important advances. Both companies have great engineering traditions that are alive and well....
Gonzo Datacenter Ventures
I'll be attending Datacenter Ventures in San Jose next week, and I thought I'd take some time and go through the 66 presenting companies and see who looks interesting. Naturally, this is StorageMojo.com, so I'm biased. At some level they are all interesting I've...
Google’s Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. II
Google's Bigtable is essentially a massive, distributed 3-D spreadsheet. It doesn't do SQL, there is limited support for atomic transactions, nor does it support the full relational database model. In short, in these and other areas, the Google team made design...
Google’s Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I
Google rolls out new applications to millions of users with surprising frequency, which is pretty amazing all by itself. Yet when you look at the variety of the applications, ranging from data-sucking behemoths like webcrawling to intimate apps like Personalized...
Blu-ray, Blue Movie, Blue Just Sounds Sexier
The stupid fight between Blu-ray and HD-DVD shows no sign of abating, but there may finally be a player with enough clout to decide the issue after the movie studios, Sony, Apple, Microsoft and HP couldn't break the log jam. The tie-breaker: pornography. And...
EMC’s New TLA Hype Cycle: IIM
EMC has been test driving their Next Big Marketing Initiative for some months. Expect them to start pounding the drums for Intelligent Information Management this month. It appears that IIM, the concept, will be embodied in software products taking pieces from several...
The Plug-In Data Center
Over at InfoWorld, Tom Yager has posted a fascinating article titled Linux will get buried. It's Not About Apple He proposes that Apple's Unix revenue will overtake commercial Linux factory-install revenue by mid-2008. Which seems reasonable: Apple sales growth is on...
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