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How IT can compete with the cloud 23 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
Enterprise IT wore out its welcome with the glass-house priesthood schtick about 30 years ago. But they were the only game in town, so the rest of the company had to suck it up. But no more. Amazon W...
Manage your data center from a tablet 22 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
Or, at least, your Violin arrays. A few weeks ago Violin Memory introduced their Symphony management app. They asked me to put together a brief intro video. As work progressed a larger question pres...
Flash geometry and performance 13 Aug 2013 | 03:48 am
Last year StorageMojo interviewed Violin Memory CEO Don Basile. He noted that as flash features sizes shrank, NAND would get slower as well as reducing endurance. Intellectually that is correct, but ...
No flash – virtual instead 13 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
Wanted to attend Flash Memory Summit, but the press of work has kept StorageMojo’s analyst team at home this week. Sorry to miss it. But we’ll be saddling up for VMworld. If you’re there please say h...
Asigra reboots backup pricing model 19 Jul 2013 | 03:36 am
For reasons that elude me I accepted Asigra’s invitation to attend their Toronto Partner Summit last week. I’m glad I did. After all, I hate backup. Not because I like losing data, but because it rem...
10 years after – lessons from a small & profitable storage vendor 5 Jul 2013 | 05:06 am
If I were starting a storage company there are several things I’d do: Start up in an area where there was lots of storage engineering and marketing expertise. Get substantial financing once I had my...
The death of disks 25 Jun 2013 | 06:51 pm
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with ...
Facebook’s advanced erasure codes 22 Jun 2013 | 04:13 am
We want our data protected from device failures. When there is a failure we want to get our data back quickly. And we want to pay as little as possible for the protection and the restore. How? Recent...
Can Mac ZFS be saved? 20 Jun 2013 | 04:36 pm
The convoluted path of OS X ZFS is taking another turn. Greenbytes, who bought Zevo from Tens Complement, will be transitioning the Mac ZFS product – Zevo – out of their company sometime this summer. ...
HP’s big transition 13 Jun 2013 | 06:50 pm
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growi...
