EMC Misses Market, Gets Hammered
EMC's stock dropped almost 7% today after they missed their quarterly revenue target by almost $100 million. They blame it on poor product mix. To my mind though, there is a bigger story here. First, forecasting is the number one measure of marketing quality. EMC has...
HDS Goes For 25X Backup Data Compression – Almost
Hitachi Data Systems is announcing a global reseller agreement today with Diligent Technologies whose 25x Backup Data Compression is, IMHO, conceptually the best in the industry. I'm sure the HDS folks have thoroughly checked the technology and found that it actually...
Online Video Storage Cheat Sheet
Twenty online video sites and more on the way? Focused on the short and sweet - 100 MB and/or 5 minutes - these sites hark back to the early days of film when all movies were short. You'll probably find the Cheat Sheet useful more for the list of sites than their...
Massive Storage In Our Brave New World
I love what cheap massive storage will do for business, culture and research. Yet every so often I have second thoughts about how storage and other technologies might be misused - with the very best of intentions. This isn't a Left or Right issue: folks from both...
Social Storage
Want to see the real time evolution of online storage into a packaged application? Check out a couple of new online photo sites. The latest twist: enabling users to build picture-based timelines (OurStory) or digital picture collages (Tabblo). Will either hit it big?...
Coolest Remote Data Services
StorageMojo.com has looked at dozens. These are the coolest. So why not just shout out backup? While any remote data site could be used for backup, these folks are either doing more than backup or they are doing backup particularly well. Name Service Audience Cost...
SSD/ULV: Changing (Battery) Life As We Know It
Update: I revisit the power calculations in an addendum below. Next-gen ultra-light laptops will be a dream come true. Lighter. Dual-core speed. Much faster solid-state disk. 75% better battery life. Combining Intel's new Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Core Duo processor -...
Google vs. Amazon: A Choice, Not An Echo
Amazon, the online retailer, is emerging as Google's most effective competitor in the world of web-based applications - and NOT by going head-to-head with the search monster, at least, not now. No one is likely to beat Google playing Google's game. Which is why...
Cool Hot Nanotubular Disk – 10x Areal Density Kicker
Flash will eat the low end of the disk business over the next 10 years, but rotating rust (OK plating - but it isn't alliterative) will live on. According to New Scientist engineers at Seagate have demonstrated a workable method of using heat-assisted recording to...
Who Knew? Storage Costs Are All Over The Map
In the elliptically named Cost of Storage Often a Poor Justifier for Investment Ferris Research performs a simple comparison of low-cost RAID 5 to what they call medium-cost RAID 5 for backing up corporate messaging systems. The bottom line: costs range from "$1.60 to...
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