An askance view of what's amazing, asinine or ahead in storage 
Cold data anyone? With so much talk of managing ‘hot’ data, I felt this might at least catch your eye. As it happens I’m not talking about the activity level for a given piece of information, but I am actually talking about temperature….and, no, not the temperature in the data center aisles but the temperature at [...]
I’m in the midst of my US naturalization process. Aside from anything else, one of the requirements in the process is to provide details of overseas trips one has made over many years as a resident in the US. Since I’ve changed jobs, laptops, and even calendar applications over that time, fulfilling the task necessitated finding the [...]
For my last blog of 2011 I am again turning to the topic of solid-state storage. I make no apologies for this as we seem to finally be witnessing the upward ‘hockey stick’ momentum in the use of solid-state in business storage ecosystems. This may not yet be represented in terms of relative dollar-spend-share – [...]
As Christmas approaches I’m not sure what I want more under my analyst tree: more solid-state vendors and products, or perhaps a day or two when I’m not talking just about solid-state!? You would think that each vendor (whether big systems houses, start-ups or stealth organizations) had uncovered something as miraculous as a virgin birth! [...]
You may think that the descriptions in the title are synonymous, but far from it. It’s just that we tend to hear far more about start-ups (new companies) than about companies – existing ones that is – which make the move to start up in storage. The reason for this is of course the simple [...]
As promised in my last blog entry, I want to record a few of the notable things that hit me as interesting or different on my recent visit to Australia. If you’re looking for more insights into SANs, solid state or scale-out architectures, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed; even clouds were in short supply…as blue spring skies blessed most of [...]
Of course, since I’m talking Australia, I probably should have put kilometers in the title! Anyhow, I just returned from seeing a very small part of the very big land down-under. It was my first-ever visit there, and I sincerely hope it will not be my last. For all the similarities there to the US or Europe, [...]
Following on from the Colorado-focused news I had in my last post, last week saw another local (at least to me!*) storage company emerge from stealth. NexGen Storage offers a hybrid PCIe solid state (which does all the heavy-lifting) and spinning disk platform. While that combination is no longer unique, the company’s advanced ability to set, control, [...]
I’m an unabashed and admitted enthusiast of the storage business in Colorado. It brought me to this wonderful part of the country nearly 15 years ago, and now (rather more prosaically) I figure its continued presence and success is good for my prospects of continued employment! So, with that background, I want to share news [...]
The acquistion of SandForce by LSI last week can be viewed in a couple of–traditional–ways. Firstly, it can be seen as just another example of the ongoing consolidation that has been rampant in the storage business of late. And what’s another $300 or $400M poured out of a buying-pot that’s dispensed over $8B in the last couple of [...]
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