Sun’s X4500 Architecture
The biggest knock against the X4500 I've heard is that it is too expensive. From a storage perspective it is actually absurdly cheap compared to the 5-10x charged by the name-brand storage vendors - and for lower data integrity than the X4500/ZFS system offers....
Sun StorageTek and NetApp Price Lists Now Online
As part of StorageMojo.com's continuing effort to level the playing field between vendors and customers, we are pleased to place on line two more price lists: Sun's StorageTek and Network Appliance. It also drives traffic as well. You can also click on the Price Lists...
Start-up Watch: Gear6 and Njini
A couple of startup funding announcements caught my eye yesterday, and when I looked a little further I found them both intriguing - but maybe not for the reasons investors would like. Gear6 is focused on the Server-Storage Performance Gap, which hasn't been...
ILM: RIP
It's official: ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), the three year old storage industry marketing thrust, is in critical condition. The good people over at the StorageNetworking.org have politely raised the red flag on ILM in three reports (see Information...
Simple Laptop Disk Speedup
James Barton has has a simple tweak to improve disk performance on Windows machines. How to Check Current Transfer Mode Open Device Manager Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Double click on Primary IDE Controller or Secondary IDE Controller Go to the Advanced Settings...
Stupid Gov’t Trick: Wireless Passport Storage
The Canadian Flag On Your Backpack Will Fool No One That's right, the US State Department loves wireless storage so much they are putting it in your passport, according to CNN Money, in the form of a 64 KB RFID chip. That's four times the memory of my first computer....
Operations: Dance Elephant, Dance!
Tim O'Reilly has a post Operations: The New Secret Sauce about a discussion with Microsoft's VP of Operations for Windows Live and how the new massive scale internet centers of Microsoft, Google et.al. change everything: . . . once we move to software as a service,...
See (A Little) Of Sto’Mo At Computerworld.com
Breaking news: I wll be posting weekly - and sometimes more - over at Computerworld.com blogs. I hope to broaden the perspective of some Computerworld readers. And drive a little traffic to StorageMojo.com. My first post is about my continuing puzzlement over the...
Coolest New Box: Sun Fire X4500
Sun may be getting their game on if the X4500 is any evidence. Packing 24 TB of storage and 2 dual-core 64bit Opterons into a 4U box, it is the first system anywhere to leverage the very cool ZFS. ZFS: Google File System For The Rest Of Us Google's GFS isn't a...
Massive Storage and the Social Search For Meaning
See the Update below. StorageMojo.com has been both Slashdotted and Digg'd. Those events prompted me to think about non-Google methods for finding the interesting and the meaningful in the massive slush pile of the web. Information Tells Us What We Want To Know Search...
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