NetApp’s Battle Shots
NetApp's announcement of multi-petabyte namespace support in its Data Ontap GX 7G storage operating system - my, doesn't that just roll off the tongue! - should allow it corner several shrinking HPC markets. Industrial Light & Magic used the Spinnaker version to store...
iSCSI From Scratch – For Very Little Scratch
iSCSI Is The Future Storage arrays are no longer magic and mystery. As Howard Marks explains in detail it isn't very difficult to build multi-terabyte iSCSI arrays out of standard servers, adapters and software. And do it for less than $2/GB using high performance...
Panic In Spindle Park
So I'm reading the EMC analyst day presentations of Joe Tucci, Mark Lewis and Diane Greene. The analysts in question are Wall Street financial analysts. Some of them are pretty knowledgeable about IT, but their money comes from predicting earnings-per-share and stock...
14 New Storage Vendor Price Lists
In order to help buyers of storage products - and to drive traffic to StorageMojo.com - we publish vendor price lists. StorageMojo.com has just added 14 new vendors to the list: Avamar, CreekPath, Data Domain,EqualLogic, FalconStor, Finisar, Isilon, Lefthand, Nexsan,...
64GB Flash Drive For the Mother of All Trojans
The friendly folks over at Kanguru Solutions have announced a $2800 64GB USB flash drive - only $44/GB. Shipments are supposed to begin later this month. They also offer 16 and 32 GB versions for, respectively, $800 or $50/GB, and $1500 or $47/GB. The 16GB capacity is...
Pandora’s Flash Drive: Beware Free USB Drives
Chilling story about a security firm's successful infiltration of a credit union's infrastructure using old USB flash drives. They wrote a Trojan that would collect ". . . passwords, logins and machine-specific information from the user’s computer, and then email...
3PAR Price List
The good folks at 3PAR have been working hard for years to bring you a fast and reasonably scalable storage array. Now you can know how much it will cost. Feast your eyes on a 3PAR Price List. StorageMojo.com compliments the 3PAR product management for not nicking the...
Seagate’s CEO Dreams of Big Disk Market & High Stock Price
Over at Forbes, Seagate Technology Chief Executive William Watkins talks about the future of disk drive capacities and pricing. The money quote: My best guess is that you will get a 40 gigabyte drive in 2010 for $80 on flash. I think the same device in a one-inch hard...
25x Backup Compression: History
The people at the Madrid, Spain-based ISV InCrew, provided some history on the development of backup compression. I've edited it a little bit to normalize the English, which is a heck of a lot better than my Spanish. [O]ur Storage architecture manages to do that and...
Ps-s-t. Wanna Buy Some Pillar Data?
Want to see the Pillar Data price list? You've come to the right place. You know, the startup Larry Ellison spent $150 million on, peering deep into his rearview mirror. Click here. Weirdest thing about the price list: all the little under $5 pieces. Yo, Larry, this...
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