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2025 1

  1. Apple Far Behind in the Strategic AI Hype Cycle

2024 2

  1. How deep is Nvidia’s technology moat?
  2. The Novel Distraction Pt. II

2023 1

  1. Short Apple Watch Ultra Review

2019 1

  1. StorageMojo on hiatus

2018 8

  1. Linus goes to charm school
  2. Image super-resolution getting better every day
  3. Apple Watch saves (another) life
  4. Coming soon: StorageMojo v2.0
  5. On retiring an old photo
  6. Hike blogging: Hangover Trail 3-31-18
  7. The Intel/Micron shotgun divorce
  8. StorageMojo’s novel distraction

2017 35

  1. Panasas pushes on
  2. The limits of disaggregation
  3. Eclipse 2017
  4. How high redundancy can hurt availability
  5. Hike blogging: 07-17-2017
  6. Flash Memory Summit next month
  7. The moving target problem
  8. Why startups fail
  9. A transaction processing system for NVRAM
  10. A distributed fabric for rack scale computing
  11. Infinidat sweetens All Flash Array Challenge
  12. Infinidat’s sweet AFA challenge
  13. Hike blogging: Devils Creek Road
  14. Routing the I/O stack
  15. Liqid’s composable infrastructure
  16. NAB 2017 storage roundup
  17. Is NetApp still doomed?
  18. Spin Transfer Technologies: next up in the MRAM race
  19. Sizing the overconfig effect on the array market
  20. Hike blogging: Deadmans Pass panorama
  21. DSSD’s demise
  22. Avere closes new round – with a twist
  23. HP offers to buy Nimble Storage
  24. fsck interruptus and your data
  25. StorageMojo’s Best Paper of FAST 2017
  26. It’s simple arithmetic: why Trump’s immigration stance is 100% wrong for America
  27. The coming all flash array/NVMePCIe SSD dogfight
  28. Why doesn’t storage innovation come from the storage industry?
  29. Cloud integration now mandatory for storage
  30. Non-Volatile Memory Workshop ’17
  31. FAST ’17 starts in two weeks
  32. Why Amazon won’t be the IBM of cloud
  33. Hike blogging: Tavasci Marsh
  34. Scality reimagines storage as art
  35. Violin’s bankruptcy

2016 59

  1. Thunder Mountain
  2. Purpose built backup appliances: cloud collateral damage
  3. The myth of video anonymity
  4. Nantero raises $21 million and that’s good
  5. Cloud market heats up
  6. When is a feature a bug?
  7. Frisky Gen-Z’s to battle boomer Intel
  8. ClearSky: object storage at enterprise block speed
  9. Everspin’s MRAM IPO
  10. Is 3D XPoint in trouble?
  11. Nutanix IPO: the big score
  12. Dell vets: buff up your resumes this weekend
  13. Artisanal science doesn’t scale
  14. Nantero NRAM: ARM’d and dangerous
  15. Notes on VMworld 2016
  16. VMworld next week
  17. Excel may be dangerous to your health – and your nation
  18. NetApp’s surprising Q1
  19. World’s largest manufacturer of vinyl records
  20. Flash Memory Summit next week
  21. A look at Symbolic IO’s patents
  22. Bandwidth reduction for erasure coded storage
  23. Building fast erasure coded storage
  24. The top storage challenges of the next decade
  25. July 4th, 2016: Mormon Canyon
  26. Meeting young Mr. Trump
  27. Enterprise storage goes inside
  28. Hike blogging: Hog Heaven trail
  29. EMC perfumes the pig
  30. Commoditizing public clouds
  31. Thunderbolt: a fast and cheap SAN
  32. Hike blogging: Memorial Day 2016
  33. The array IP implosion
  34. WD is not a disk drive company – and not a moment too soon
  35. Scale and the all-flash datacenter
  36. Why storage is getting simpler
  37. Storage surprises at NAB 2016
  38. NABster 2016
  39. Superforecasting
  40. Smart storage for big data
  41. Hike blogging: Soldiers Pass
  42. Qumulo comes of age
  43. Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory
  44. So, how much will Optane SSDs cost?
  45. StorageMojo’s 10th birthday
  46. CloudVelox: building a freeway into the cloud
  47. Integrating 3D Xpoint with DRAM
  48. RRAM vendor inks deal with semi foundry
  49. The cult of memory
  50. Asymmetric innovation: legacy vs cloud
  51. Memcomputing
  52. Non-volatile memory conference next week
  53. How engineers – and anyone else – can figure out how good their marketing is
  54. EMC’s costly battle against upstarts
  55. Snow on the rocks
  56. Paul Graham’s naiveté – MLK day, 2016
  57. Gödel Machines, deep learning and the limits of AI
  58. Market share: HP & Others up – everyone else down
  59. New year’s eve & new year’s day hikes

2015 27

  1. When will SSDs kill the 2.5″ disk drive?
  2. How storage is changing the world
  3. Mr. Dell’s eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror
  4. Is AWS trying to throttle back its growth?
  5. Dell buys EMC & Tucci wins
  6. Hike blogging: Cibola trail
  7. Inifinite io’s network storage controller: what is it?
  8. Throwing hardware at a software problem
  9. Flash slaying the latency dragon?
  10. Why it’s time to forget about flash
  11. NVM is off to the races
  12. The storage tipping point
  13. Hike blogging: the Twin Buttes loop
  14. Can NetApp be saved?
  15. Why it’s hard to meet SLAs with SSDs
  16. Make Hadoop the world’s largest iSCSI target
  17. Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945
  18. No-budget marketing for small companies
  19. Hike blogging: Sunday May 10 on Brins Mesa
  20. FAST ’15: StorageMojo’s Best Paper
  21. EMC II’s ragged last quarter
  22. How doomed is NetApp?
  23. EMC’s DSSD hiring is exploding
  24. Latency in all-flash arrays
  25. EMC’s missing petabytes: the cost of short stroking
  26. Help StorageMojo find the VMAX 20k’s lost petabytes!
  27. Facebook on disaggregation vs. hyperconvergence

2014 93

  1. Friday hike blogging: Highline trail
  2. WD acquires Skyera: whoa!
  3. The 30% solution
  4. Friday hike blogging: Cockscomb Butte
  5. Primary Data takes on the enterprise
  6. EMC’s re-intermediation strategy
  7. AWS re:Invent this week
  8. Pure vs EMC: who’s winning?
  9. Friday hike blogging: clouds and sun
  10. Mark Lewis on Formation’s enterprise play
  11. Adesto resistance RAM shipping now
  12. Friday hike blogging: Sterling Pass trail
  13. Shadow IT industry pt. III: what’s next?
  14. Friday hike blogging: West fork, new and improved!
  15. Shadow IT pt. 2
  16. The shadow IT industry
  17. Scale and intelligence: lessons from warehouse-scale computing
  18. Symantec to split – finally!
  19. Friday hike blogging: the west fork of Oak Creek
  20. Reconstruction almost complete
  21. Friday hike blogging: Brins Mesa
  22. Macromolecular storage: the next frontier
  23. EMC’s “Federation” meme is so dead
  24. Friday hike blogging: Chicken Point
  25. StorPool’s new distributed storage software
  26. Friday hike blogging: Brins Mesa
  27. Optimizing erasure-coded storage for latency and cost
  28. HGST & Amplidata to co-develop “ultra-dense” storage
  29. Friday hike blogging: Teacup Trail
  30. Deep file analytics
  31. Infinidat: 21st century enterprise storage arrives
  32. Labor Day 2014
  33. Friday hike blogging: Airport Mesa
  34. The network crunch: DAS and SAN
  35. Why are array architectures so old?
  36. Friday hike blogging: clouds!
  37. DataGravity launches
  38. Friday hike blogging: Mormon Canyon
  39. Scale Computing: infrastructure made simple
  40. Got interoperability testing?
  41. Seagate’s Kinetic vision shipping – but not from Seagate
  42. Friday hike blogging
  43. High performance SSDs: hot, hungry & sometimes slow
  44. Performance: IOPS or latency or data services?
  45. Hike blogging
  46. Flash Memory Summit 2014
  47. The new storage industry rave
  48. Hike blog: Airport loop
  49. Quasi-NVRAM using built-in battery backup
  50. TwinStrata buy makes it official: cloud gateway a feature, not a product
  51. Ch-ch-changes @StorageMojo
  52. Hike blogging: July 4th, 2014
  53. Data services more important than latency? Not!
  54. IOPS is not the key number
  55. Hike blogging
  56. Crossbar shows ultra-dense RRAM architecture
  57. Crossbar founder finds metals move – in a solid
  58. Competing with the cloud: Achieving high efficiency
  59. Competing with the cloud: PUE
  60. Flash risks, rewards and “usable capacity”
  61. Dear StorageMojo: replace 4PiB of tape with object storage?
  62. Is HP storage turning the corner?
  63. Sweetest comment ever. . .
  64. Open vStorage
  65. Disks: how hot is too hot?
  66. EMC’s DSSD FUD
  67. 3D flash in 2016
  68. “The more fundamental requirement”
  69. Is AWS rational?
  70. EMC goes all in with DSSD
  71. Glacier redux
  72. XtremIO’s slow start
  73. Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL
  74. IBM’s Q1 storage pain – amputation imminent
  75. EMC gets the Cisco Whiptail lash
  76. EMC up to old tricks
  77. Avere makes cloud NFS fast & safe for the enterprise
  78. Off to NAB 2014 – and beyond!
  79. A3Cube’s cluster architecture
  80. Is software’s free ride over?
  81. OpenStack Swift software defined storage
  82. Enterprise open source storage software adoption & the cloud
  83. Is Violin Memory done?
  84. Cloud and the current infrastructure brawl
  85. FAST ’14: the big picture
  86. StorageMojo’s Best Papers of FAST ’14
  87. Where does ReRAM fit?
  88. Frontiers of storage: plasmonics & metamaterials
  89. Frontiers of storage: magnetic holography
  90. Seagate moves more potential to Kinetic
  91. Yee-hah! FAST ’14 next month!
  92. Is IBM’s storage business doomed?
  93. Nutanix kicks it

2013 40

  1. SMR, the stealth drive revolution
  2. The top 5 alternatives to XtremIO
  3. Barcelona next week
  4. Best workload for enterprise arrays?
  5. Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision
  6. Ideal workload for enterprise arrays?
  7. XtremLY late XtremIO launch next week
  8. Amazon: #2 storage company in 3 years
  9. Extending block storage to cloud scale
  10. The Nirvanix failure
  11. Are file and object stores in the same segment?
  12. Verifying cloud services
  13. How IT can compete with the cloud
  14. Manage your data center from a tablet
  15. Flash geometry and performance
  16. No flash – virtual instead
  17. Asigra reboots backup pricing model
  18. 10 years after – lessons from a small & profitable storage vendor
  19. The death of disks
  20. Facebook’s advanced erasure codes
  21. Can Mac ZFS be saved?
  22. HP’s big transition
  23. Creative Storage conference June 25th
  24. HP Discover 2013: Las Vegas
  25. Architecting & integrating flash into enterprise storage
  26. Cloud money: flip a Bitcoin
  27. EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2
  28. EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1
  29. Is F5’s ARX file virtualization a success?
  30. Fronting NAS for fun and profit
  31. StorageMojo @NAB 2013 next week
  32. Build a 3PB storage solution
  33. Dear StorageMojo: should I go all SSD?
  34. What is DSSD building?
  35. StorageMojo’s best papers of FAST ’13
  36. FAST ’13
  37. Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose
  38. The stovepipe vs the grid
  39. Long-term storage at Storage Visions 2013
  40. 2013: Year of the slog

2012 42

  1. EMC’s Xtreme embarrassment
  2. Nimbus Data is for real
  3. HP Discover Europe
  4. Big Data and object storage: lessons learned
  5. Cloud Expo up next
  6. Big Data in Formula 1 racing
  7. Coolest new product @SNW-Europe: Silent Cubes
  8. Off to SNW Europe
  9. DRAM errors soft and hard
  10. The coming crisis in disk drives
  11. More efficient erasure coding in Windows Azure storage
  12. @SDC this week
  13. ZFS returns to the Mac
  14. Skyera’s 99¢ store
  15. IBM buys Texas Memory Systems
  16. Automating remote system support
  17. On the road again
  18. The post-RAID era begins
  19. F5100 array internals
  20. Time in
  21. Time out
  22. Hot-swap in a non-SSD flash array
  23. The SSD write cliff in real life
  24. SSD arrays: limits of architectural critiques
  25. Real storage for a virtual world
  26. Coraid’s scale-out architecture
  27. Cleversafe: massive storage, massive patents
  28. SSD symposium tomorrow
  29. Amplidata’s distributed object store
  30. Violin’s clean-sheet architecture
  31. Nimble Storage: StorageMojo is wrong!
  32. In thinking about SSDs, consider HA
  33. Tintri responds on SSD arrays
  34. Dear StorageMojo: migrating from Centera to Isilon
  35. SSDs in arrays: the Pure Storage view
  36. StorageMojo webinar Tuesday, March 13
  37. Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea?
  38. NAND’s dimming future
  39. Virtualizing storage controllers
  40. Doubling flash write performance through retention relaxation
  41. SSDs and the TPC-C top 10
  42. Gridstore snags Geoff Barrall

2011 46

  1. Learning from customers
  2. How fault tolerant are SANs?
  3. Ask StorageMojo: 80,000 mailboxes need help
  4. 14 things to know about XIV
  5. The network is choking our storage
  6. RAMCloud is the new flash
  7. NoSQL in the metadata engine room
  8. Storage @VMworld 2011
  9. Flash cheaper than disk? Really?
  10. StorageMojo @ VMworld
  11. Dear StorageMojo: cheap home bulk storage?
  12. Beta hunt: Java Platform as a Service
  13. Nimble Storage architecture video
  14. Careers@StorageMojo kicks off
  15. A cluster-based dedup appliance
  16. The per-slot cost metric
  17. Open source storage array
  18. It’s time for primary data compression
  19. StorageMojo Careers
  20. De-dup: too much of good thing?
  21. Can flash SSDs be trusted?
  22. Corporate police state: Cisco edition
  23. Webinar Q&A: flash SSD performance & reliability
  24. StorageMojo webinar Thursday
  25. Flash and the re-architecting of storage
  26. Iron Mountain punts digital storage
  27. All de-dup works
  28. Amazon’s EBS outage
  29. Google’s Megastore
  30. Flip RIP. Is UCS next?
  31. Anobit’s voodoo that they do
  32. StorageMojo at NAB ’11
  33. Off to SNW
  34. NetApp’s Engenuity
  35. StorageMojo @Big Data NYC next week
  36. Flash isn’t storage!
  37. Show StorageMojo some love
  38. Snow on the rocks
  39. EMC channels their inner prankster
  40. Great work at FAST ’11
  41. StorageMojo @FAST ’11
  42. Ken Olsen, 1926-2011
  43. Will algorithms leap Moore’s Wall?
  44. Hyder: a flash-based scale-out database
  45. Calling all Fusion-io users
  46. StorageMojo @Storage Visions & CES 2011

2010 65

  1. Fed funding for our digital future
  2. Dear StorageMojo: make NFS go fast!
  3. A local sandbox for cloud storage
  4. Moore’s Wall: the end of Moore’s Law
  5. EMC and Isilon
  6. Jack be Nimble
  7. OpenStorage Summit next week
  8. Objectively speaking: the future of objects
  9. Why are flash prices dropping?
  10. Calling all grad students
  11. Donatelli’s $2B bet
  12. ZFS fight is over. Yay!
  13. One infrastructure to rule them all
  14. StorageMojo: on the road again
  15. 3Par-ty tonight – hangover tomorrow?
  16. 3bpc flash debut
  17. @Flash Memory Summit
  18. Cloud’s app killer


  19. Dear StorageMojo: low-cost archive storage?
  20. What is “primary” storage?
  21. HDS: masters of stealth marketing
  22. Off to Tokyo
  23. A cloud app for the masses
  24. Making data Vanish
  25. Greg Reyes sentenced
  26. How tape dies
  27. Room at the top
  28. Quantum physics for the rest of us
  29. Memorial Day, 2010
  30. Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right
  31. Shock, vibe and awe
  32. Another scale-out storage vendor bought
  33. StorageMojo @EMC World
  34. Cisco’s UCS limited scale
  35. A deep dive into Cisco’s UCS
  36. NetApp buys Bycast
  37. VKernel
  38. StorageMojo traveling
  39. Violin tunes up
  40. Vendors MIA on health privacy fight
  41. Brocade’s ex-CEO convicted on 9 felony charges
  42. Symantec retreats from the storage battlefield
  43. HCR: a great day for storage
  44. Brocade’s unraveling
  45. The Next Big Things
  46. StorageMojo@NAB 2010
  47. Atmos architect moves on
  48. StorageMojo’s best paper of FAST ’10
  49. Does RAID 6 stop working in 2019?
  50. quFiles: The right file at the right time
  51. FAST ’10 papers: wow.
  52. Another optical storage system bites the dust
  53. Amazon Web Services: a $500 million startup
  54. StorageMojo @FAST ’10 next week
  55. A petascale parallel database
  56. Why private clouds are part of the future
  57. Oracle+Sun storage: wiser & brighter
  58. Will a 70 TB cartridge save LTO?
  59. Verari restart
  60. Storage for version control
  61. StorageMojo back up!
  62. Price Lists update
  63. Cloud at Storage Visions 2010
  64. Coolness @ Storage Visions/CES 2010
  65. StorageMojo @ Storage Visions & CES this week

2009 102

  1. 2009’s big STORies
  2. Why we need 4k drives
  3. Geoff Barrall out as Data Robotics CEO
  4. A 1 petabyte science project
  5. Thank you, StorageMojo readers!
  6. Tiny server clusters
  7. A data robot is eating the low end
  8. Let Gartner tell your story?
  9. Consolidated I/O for virtual data centers
  10. Price lists down up?
  11. Storage weather forecast: much coolness
  12. Redundant array of inexpensive servers
  13. StorageMojo in Silicon Valley next week
  14. Gartner’s magic hydrant
  15. Mac ZFS is dead
  16. Cool companies at SNW
  17. Ask StorageMojo: EqualLogic vs LeftHand & more
  18. 1 million IOPS in 1 RU
  19. Optical nearing the end of the line
  20. Virtual SNW
  21. Nightmare on DIMM street
  22. StorageMojo@SNW next week
  23. Hot data, smart cache
  24. HP’s unified storage/compute strategy
  25. The Cloud Quadrant
  26. StorageMojo off to HP’s Storage Tech Day
  27. MaxiScale’s Web-scale file system
  28. Bringing cloud to the masses – of service providers
  29. RDBMS: going the way of the mainframe?
  30. Happy 5th: 5 years of storage blogging
  31. Flash bash: disks and DIMMs
  32. The Sun 4 TB flash array F5100
  33. Cloud storage for $100 a terabyte
  34. Why did Apple drop ZFS?
  35. Is STEC’s lead sustainable?
  36. WD’s new 2TB drive delivers on green promise
  37. Google File System v2, part 2
  38. Google File Systems v2, part 1
  39. StorageMojo in San Diego later this week
  40. TPC-C: comparing SSD & disk
  41. Avere Systems: dynamic tiering for the masses – of data?
  42. A RisingTide lifts all clouds
  43. WD’s 1 TB 2.5″ drive
  44. An IBRIX customer asks: what now?
  45. End of the line for the 1.8″ HDD?
  46. HP buys IBRIX
  47. Microsoft out for VMware blood
  48. Quantum next up in de-dup battle?
  49. Update on advertising
  50. Cold storage
  51. Not a filesystem, not a database.
  52. Outrageously cool new hard drive
  53. Atmos gets no love from EMC sales
  54. Configure a 100 TB HD video infrastructure
  55. It’s official: Data Domain’s board doesn’t like EMC
  56. NetApp matches – really? – EMC’s offer
  57. Enter Exagrid
  58. EMC plays catchup with NetApp
  59. 5 zombie storage concepts that should die
  60. Hospital ship Haven in Nagasaki, Japan, 1945
  61. Memorial day, 431 BC
  62. A clear message from Interop ’09
  63. Btrfs vs ZFS – OMG!
  64. StorageMojo @ Interop
  65. Why we’re getting vertical – again
  66. Egenera price list
  67. Press to win
  68. Cloud, sand and scale
  69. Non-competes are evil
  70. DAS: the biggest surprise at NAB ’09
  71. Price list update
  72. Private clouds won’t fly
  73. StorageMojo at NAB next week
  74. Why do we chill data centers?
  75. DroboPro at SNW
  76. StorageMojo hacked yet again
  77. Ask StorageMojo: is Atmos the only choice?
  78. Update on Cisco’s UCS
  79. StorageMojo at SNW Orlando next week
  80. Books: analog to digital
  81. StorageMojo Twitter beta
  82. Cisco’s bong-sized cloud: telcos only?
  83. Cisco’s unified computing system
  84. StorageMojo site renovation starting today
  85. DTrace enabled storage analytics
  86. TMS announces 450 GB PCI-e SSD
  87. Vint Cerf on bit rot in Windows 3000 – lol
  88. Is EMC gaming the government?
  89. Belts, suspenders and scale
  90. The Amazon keynote at FAST ’09
  91. Clouds over Berkeley: the RADLab reviews cloud computing pt. 2
  92. Clouds over Berkeley: the RADLab reviews cloud computing pt. 1
  93. Bayesian analysis of IT infrastructure
  94. Quantum holographic storage
  95. StorageMojo @ FAST ’09
  96. Dear Uncle StorageMojo: CSI edition
  97. Cloud storage symposium impressions
  98. SNIA cloud storage summit
  99. TransFlash
  100. Watkins walks – can Seagate fly?
  101. The top storage stories of 2008
  102. Shh! Disk drive at work.

2008 116

  1. Cloud storage is a component
  2. Garth Gibson on supercomputer storage
  3. Many-cores hit the memory wall
  4. Flash and the new storage pyramid
  5. The new storage pyramid
  6. Stupid storage failures
  7. Economic crisis and the storage industry
  8. Atmos: EMC rolls the dice
  9. The computer science behind EMC’s cloud storage
  10. How bad do the ads suck?
  11. Flash-talking with Fusion-io
  12. Blu-ray is dead. Now what?
  13. Cool kit at SNW
  14. Axxana fixes the speed of light
  15. StorageMojo @ SNW this week
  16. Building a 1.8 exabyte data center
  17. HP/LeftHand: cluster market shapes up
  18. 3.5″ drives: the end is near
  19. De-duplicating primary storage
  20. YottaNotta
  21. StorageMojo in San Diego Monday
  22. Are there economies of scale in storage?
  23. SNIA reprise online
  24. Our changing file workloads
  25. StorageMojo live! Today!
  26. The view from StorageMojo
  27. XIV: eXtremely Inexplicable Value
  28. Fat trees and skinny switches
  29. Flash isn’t tier zero
  30. StorageMojo at Flash Memory Summit
  31. Power-play, power work
  32. Green-plated storage
  33. Seattle scalability conference videos
  34. The Data Center’s Green Direction is a Dead End
  35. Samsung follows StorageMojo’s lead – finally!
  36. The virtual machine I/O blender
  37. Write off-loading enterprise storage
  38. Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance
  39. Testing, testing, 1 2 3 . . .
  40. StorageMojo at SNIA Symposium
  41. Notebook SSDs are dead
  42. The Hitz report
  43. David Caminer: app design for 1st business computer
  44. Optimism and manycore computing
  45. IT is a factory; the Web is a playground
  46. Short videos from Seattle Scalability Conference
  47. It’s official: ZFS in Mac OS 10.6 server
  48. Cloud computing podcast
  49. Seattle Scalability Conference quick take
  50. Off to Seattle
  51. Roadrunner’s backing store
  52. EMC’s vision for Pi Corp
  53. Seattle Scalability Conference v.2
  54. IBRIX CTO talks segmented file system
  55. EMC: flash replaces high-end disks in 2010
  56. Where’s Maui?
  57. Anatomy of an outage
  58. Seagate’s head-settling time?
  59. NAND – an engineer’s perspective, pt zwei
  60. StorageMojo in Chicago
  61. NAND – an engineer’s perspective
  62. StorageMojo: hacked!
  63. NAB Shorts: MatrixStore
  64. The value of guaranteed uptime
  65. HGST getting ready to rumble
  66. Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?
  67. NAB shorts: Omneon Video Networks
  68. NAB shorts: Isilon
  69. SNW & NAB: IOPS vs bandwidth
  70. Holographic storage debuts next month
  71. StorageMojo off to NAB
  72. Xiotech’s ISE: beast or gamine?
  73. SNW update – Xiotech’s ISE and the dilithium solution
  74. StorageVideoMojo
  75. StorageMojo @ Storage Networking World – again
  76. Faster, better storage pricing
  77. Dear Uncle StorageMojo: Datacore vs EqualLogic
  78. Atrato disk array goes public
  79. Punctuated equilibrium in the digital universe
  80. Show StorageMojo some love
  81. Will FCoE save storage networks?
  82. SOHO backup that works: why is it so hard?
  83. P4P: smart, fast and easy P2P
  84. StorageMojo’s favorite FAST 08 paper
  85. NetApp’s new name: NetApp
  86. Flash futures
  87. Flash talking – and a wee DRAM – with Texas Memory Systems
  88. Isilon update
  89. EMC: shake, rattle and roll
  90. Cleversafe’s dispersed storage network
  91. NetApp’s research offensive
  92. Why do storage systems fail?
  93. StorageMojo update
  94. What’s with Isilon?
  95. Apple’s Xserve RAID bites the dust
  96. Latent sector errors in disk drives
  97. Protein quantum dot optical next gen storage
  98. Atrato: High-performance, high-density storage
  99. StorageMojo at FAST 2008
  100. White House data loss
  101. Set phasers to “change”
  102. Flash performance update
  103. What was Ray Ozzie thinking?
  104. Isilon increases their IQ
  105. Cloud computing is foggy thinking
  106. Disk-based archive vs disk-based storage
  107. A stroll down memory lane: HP’s 2004 storage grid vision
  108. Vendors beware: the buyers are restless
  109. Commodity crunch is here
  110. EMC’s new flash drives
  111. 2008: cluster storage goes mainstream
  112. Microsoft RIFs old file formats – mea culpa
  113. Microsoft RIFs old file formats
  114. StorageMojo’s Las Vegas weekend
  115. The StorageMojo 2007 prediction scorecard
  116. Fusion io does the hard part

2007 187

  1. Sun/NetApp suit update
  2. FastMail fights data corruption
  3. Aptare backup management & capacity planning
  4. Magic in the OLPC
  5. Save Internet freedom – from telcos, for users
  6. Why are the writers striking?
  7. EMC’s Maui and everybody else
  8. EMC’s Maui and the future of clustered storage
  9. Brocade’s ex-VP of HR convicted – &
  10. Internet video’s performance/quality vise
  11. Google thinks I’m a virus
  12. Storage is power
  13. Keys to spotting a flawed President – before it’s too late
  14. OpenSolaris: the universal storage platform?
  15. The high-end storage meltdown
  16. Grid is dead
  17. Adva & Sepaton price lists now online
  18. Linux needs Open Source Marketing
  19. Nexenta next up on OSS storage
  20. The Hulk goes Hawaiian
  21. Flash drives not worth the candle in notebooks
  22. Seagate ships infected drives
  23. Distributed systems design for everyone
  24. What is Mandriva whining about?
  25. The bastards say, welcome.
  26. Dell wins EqualLogic – EMC loses
  27. The China syndrome
  28. Flash Performance on a Nokia N800
  29. Sun counter-punches NetApp
  30. StorageMojo NPI
  31. The best bluesman you’ve never heard of
  32. Would you use OSS storage?
  33. StorageMojo jobs board
  34. Sun fires back at NetApp
  35. Storage vendors are HUNGRY!
  36. Isilon cleans house
  37. NetApp filers for $1/GB?
  38. Mac ZFS debate
  39. pNFS technical intro
  40. StorageMojo @ Storage Networking World
  41. The 3rd leg of patent reform
  42. Parascale’s CTO on what’s different about Parascale
  43. Sun’s storage announcement
  44. Hurtin’ Hitachi
  45. Fusion-io – great demo. Now comes the hard part.
  46. Sun’s adds Lustre to supercomputing
  47. Parascale launches Google-like storage software
  48. EMC buys leader in telekinetic security
  49. Flash vs disk at DISKCON 2007
  50. CERN’s data corruption research
  51. StorageMojo@DISKCON USA 2007 this week
  52. EMC’s page 1 Wall Street Journal story
  53. Flash isn’t living up to the hype
  54. Build a $50 DVD burner
  55. EMC’s coming strategic shift
  56. NetApp tilts at windmills – and ZFS
  57. The Google power perspective
  58. Massive price list update
  59. World’s most beautiful supercomputer
  60. Can integrators be trusted?
  61. The 1 Terabyte CD
  62. The coming boom in SSD’s
  63. Open source in lean IT
  64. Benchmarking energy efficiency
  65. What rules for corporate blogging?
  66. Free speech for corporate bloggers
  67. Our lackluster commodity file systems
  68. Brocade’s ex-CEO nailed for fraud
  69. F5 acquires Acopia
  70. Mission-critical OSS: an oxymoron?
  71. Powering a warehouse-sized computer – part 2
  72. So what does Google use when they aren’t Googling?
  73. Powering a warehouse-sized computer – part 1
  74. Long-haul InfiniBand
  75. Two summer scalability conferences
  76. When *haven’t* we had home storage?
  77. Has Crosswalk closed its doors?
  78. Why aren’t disk reads more reliable?
  79. Who makes the best consumer disk drives?
  80. All (almost) Seattle Conference on Scalability videos now online
  81. Seattle Conference on Scalability videos
  82. How Yahoo can beat Google
  83. 100x laser-based disks: less than meets the eye
  84. Seattle Scalability Conference, Pt II
  85. Seattle Conference on Scalability, Pt. I
  86. Consumerization of IT: iPhone skirmishing begins
  87. Wiki-wiki w00t!
  88. Flash chance
  89. ZFS on Mac: Now it’s official!
  90. Google Seattle scalability conference
  91. Apple’s touchless file system conversion patent
  92. ZFS On Mac: Now All-But-Official Pt. II
  93. Palm’s new Foleo
  94. Proud plumbing
  95. Home RAID vs backup?
  96. What is email?
  97. WhoseLifeBytes? Gordon Bell in The New Yorker
  98. Segmenting techies
  99. The innovator’s dilemma in technicolor
  100. Intel’s best and worst
  101. What is VMware worth?
  102. Patent update for engineers
  103. EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part II
  104. DH Hell
  105. Identity theft gets worse
  106. Visions vs Roadmaps
  107. What if EMC held an analyst conference and nobody came?
  108. EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part I
  109. Who is this guy?
  110. What a web business wants from storage
  111. Secure Erase: data security you already own
  112. Google and Oracle: a death-match made in heaven
  113. 3Leaf’s virtual I/O system
  114. Cool stuff at SNW
  115. Mo’ better ZFS performance stats
  116. New ZFS performance numbers
  117. Life is a sequential access workload
  118. Hot new 10Gb switch will shake up storage networks
  119. Responding to Marc Farley of EqualLogic
  120. Su IP, mi IP!
  121. Flash’s First Victim?
  122. Oracle now on StorageMojo’s price list page
  123. Dumbing down tech
  124. A random write down flash street
  125. Build your own notebook flash drive
  126. Finally, some drive model failure numbers
  127. IBM Fellow Steve Hetzler
  128. Storage Bits on ZDnet
  129. Documentum, RSA and VMware Price Lists
  130. Data replication from 33 AD to 405 AD
  131. Samsung puts large flash SSD on shoulder – dares Intel and Toshiba to knock it off
  132. Transparent File System – Can You See It?
  133. EMC Makes Nice
  134. EMC Threatens StorageMojo
  135. Creating an Historical Archive
  136. Files, Objects and Blocks, Oh My!
  137. Objects To Desire
  138. Un-Intel-igent Email Retention
  139. The Consumerization of IT
  140. HP’s Bold Move Into Storage Clusters
  141. Lightscribe: High-Tech Sharpie Replacement
  142. 40 Year Old Virgin Storage: Insecure, Vulnerable
  143. Listening to CDs
  144. Big Blue Responds
  145. Disk Vendors Dig 10 Petabyte Hole; Throw Selves In
  146. Disintermediation of Dead Tree Storage: Google Books Project
  147. EMC: “These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For”
  148. ZFS On Mac: Easier Than You Thought
  149. NetApp Weighs In On Disks
  150. Flash Tipping Point Next Year
  151. Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi GST, EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM and Sun
  152. Inside Skinny On Isilon
  153. Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong
  154. Google’s Disk Failure Experience
  155. Big Iron Day At StorageMojo
  156. Dear Uncle StorageMojo
  157. Real-ID – Fake Security
  158. Pumps, Pipes & Pools
  159. Cool Data, Cold Cache
  160. Updated NetApp Price List Now Online
  161. Life and Death Competitive Analysis
  162. Isilon #1 Supplier of Storage Clusters
  163. Isilon’s Q4 Results
  164. The Coming Hard Landing in Data Storage
  165. Updated EMC Price List Now Online
  166. “Magic” i.e. Appears Impossible
  167. Lost In Space: Man’s First Step On the Moon
  168. Samsung’s Biggest Competitor Is Samsung
  169. Lab Report: Unsupported OEM Dual-Layer DVD Burner on a Mac
  170. Jim Gray Missing At Sea
  171. Isilon’s Cluster Technology. Pt. 2.0
  172. Isilon’s Cluster Technology. Pt. 1.0
  173. Welcome Omneon Video Networks
  174. So What’s With Data Mobility Group?
  175. Whipping Out the Checkbook for Isilon
  176. Flash VaporDrives: Promises, Promises
  177. Choosing Network Attached Storage For SOHO
  178. Enterprise IT: The Elephant’s Graveyard
  179. Lawyers, Justice and RAID
  180. Brocade Buys Into IP SANs
  181. SSD Price War Begins
  182. Apple’s Enterprise Strategy
  183. Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Tech Notes From East Africa
  184. Disks Keep Getting Better
  185. Cisco’s Lock On Corporate Data Security
  186. 2007 In Review: Time Machine Version
  187. Happy New Year, Movie Industry!

2006 233

  1. Many Price Lists and One Page to Rule Them All
  2. Medical Privacy Is A Sick Joke
  3. IBM and HP Price Lists Now Updated
  4. Economics of ZFS
  5. Troll Skirmish: ZFS on Mac
  6. Updated Sun/StorageTek Price List
  7. ZFS On Mac: Now All-But-Official
  8. Al Shugart, 1930 – 2006
  9. Remote PC Backup – New & Improved!
  10. The Internet Is The Message, Pt. II
  11. The Internet Is The Message, Pt. I
  12. Phase change: Super-flash or Flash-in-the-pan?
  13. Unstructured Information Management
  14. Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. III
  15. Adam Smith and the Liberace Effect
  16. Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. II
  17. Help Wanted: Storage Leadership Position Open
  18. Today’s the Day: New FRCP Rules Now in Effect
  19. The Engineer’s Guide To Market Success
  20. Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. I
  21. Privacy Carve Out: Vapor-Paper
  22. Infinite Density Storage @ the End of the Rainbow?
  23. Kevin Closson is a Golden God!
  24. Ancient Storage Technology: the Human Mind
  25. Vaporstream Anti-storage
  26. VMware: Solving Microsoft’s quality problem
  27. Architectural Appeal
  28. Truth: The Ultimate Marketing Tool
  29. E-Discovery: Sizing the, Um-m, Opportunity
  30. Rackable: the Dell of Next-Gen Storage?
  31. “Your Papers AND Your Laptop, Pliss”
  32. StorageMojo Creeps Into 21st Century: RSS Feed
  33. Amazon & Web Services: One Business or Two?
  34. Risk Perception in Data Centers
  35. Disks More Profitable Than Paper
  36. Microsoft’s Storage Challenge
  37. Power, cooling & IOPS: Will power kill the 3.5″ drive?
  38. Best of Show at Storage Networking World
  39. Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. IV
  40. Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. III
  41. Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. II
  42. Microsoft’s Secret Google-killer? Boxwood Pt. I
  43. StorageMojo Goes To Storage Networking World
  44. Build A Portable Opposable Thumb Drive
  45. 8 Open Source Storage Projects That Want You
  46. ILM: Damned With Faint Praise
  47. A Big SSD Vendor Begs To Differ
  48. “Host Bust Adapters White Paper From Emulex . . .”
  49. An SSD For The Rest Of Us
  50. RAM-based SSD’s Are Toast – Yippie ki-yay!
  51. EMC’s Legato Network Supports ZFS
  52. MojoPac Vitualizes a PC On USB Storage
  53. Big Network Storage Cache From Gear6
  54. Efficient Resource Allocation in SOA’s – Pt II
  55. StorageMojo Consulting – Open For Business
  56. Tape Vendor Admits Disk Faster, Better, CHEAPER!
  57. Efficient Resource Allocation in SOA’s – Pt I
  58. Consumerization of Infrastructure
  59. Google’s Price for Bad Marketing: $1.65 Billion
  60. 1 Version or Many: Which “Version” Do You Want?
  61. The StorageMojo.com Podcast
  62. Sto’Mo’s 3 Minute Guide to Electronic Discovery
  63. RAID: The Visual Guide
  64. Utilization vs Cost: The Capacity Illusion
  65. “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
  66. RAD Infrastructure: the Case of the Missing X4500
  67. Google Software Development
  68. ZFS: High Availability Mojo Coming Soonish
  69. Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt II
  70. Coolest New Companies At Datacenter Ventures
  71. HP Scandal Deepens Thanks To Massive Storage
  72. Day 1 @ Datacenter Ventures
  73. Daddy, tell me again how little EMC beat giant IBM . . .
  74. Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt I
  75. Means, Motive & Opportunity: Apple Kills the Media Center PC
  76. The Low-End Streetfight
  77. Sto’Mo Mashup: Wikipedia, Buffer Bandits, Tape Encryption, Flashtopia
  78. More Datacenter Ventures Cool Companies
  79. Congrats to Sun & Seagate: WSJ Tech Innovation Winners
  80. Gonzo Datacenter Ventures
  81. Google’s Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. II
  82. Google’s Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I
  83. Blu-ray, Blue Movie, Blue Just Sounds Sexier
  84. EMC’s New TLA Hype Cycle: IIM
  85. The Plug-In Data Center
  86. DrunkenILM: JWT Smack Fu With Miss Marketing
  87. Massive Data Encryption Test
  88. Googzilla vs Microsofthra: The Gathering Squall
  89. ZFS On Apple’s Leopard: Drops Of Fuel On The Embers
  90. Storage Management Declining & Not A Moment Too Soon
  91. StorageMojo.com At Datacenter Ventures Next Month
  92. The Fog Of Identity In The Post-Privacy World
  93. Bits & Pieces: Network Storage Of Tomorrow
  94. How Big Is Too Big: The One TB Disk
  95. Lies, Damn Lies, & Storage Performance
  96. An Open-Source SAN
  97. ZFS Performance Versus Hardware RAID
  98. Notebooks Get ‘Flashed’
  99. Brocade Buys McData: Yawn.
  100. YouTube Meet YouDupe
  101. Skyrider: Peer-To-Peer Data Center
  102. Key Limits Of Apple’s Time Machine
  103. Is Apple’s Time Machine Built On Sun’s ZFS?
  104. Sun’s DTrace Now On Mac OS X
  105. StorageMojo.com Buys Storage
  106. Can Enterprise IT Adapt? Sure, But Why Start Now?
  107. Architecting the Internet Data Center: The Complete Series
  108. New Clustered NAS Head From Crosswalk
  109. Architecting the Internet Data Center: Pt IV
  110. Happy Birthday, Rotating Rust!
  111. Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt III
  112. Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt II
  113. Architecting Internet Data Centers – Pt. I
  114. Open Source FreeNAS Project
  115. Financial Woes In “Digital Data”
  116. Sun’s X4500 Architecture
  117. Sun StorageTek and NetApp Price Lists Now Online
  118. Start-up Watch: Gear6 and Njini
  119. ILM: RIP
  120. Simple Laptop Disk Speedup
  121. Stupid Gov’t Trick: Wireless Passport Storage
  122. Operations: Dance Elephant, Dance!
  123. See (A Little) Of Sto’Mo At Computerworld.com
  124. Coolest New Box: Sun Fire X4500
  125. Massive Storage and the Social Search For Meaning
  126. EMC Misses Market, Gets Hammered
  127. HDS Goes For 25X Backup Data Compression – Almost
  128. Online Video Storage Cheat Sheet
  129. Massive Storage In Our Brave New World
  130. Social Storage
  131. Coolest Remote Data Services
  132. SSD/ULV: Changing (Battery) Life As We Know It
  133. Google vs. Amazon: A Choice, Not An Echo
  134. Cool Hot Nanotubular Disk – 10x Areal Density Kicker
  135. Who Knew? Storage Costs Are All Over The Map
  136. EMC: Money Can’t Buy Love; Can Buy Pig In Poke
  137. Google’s Secret Architecture
  138. EMC: Lights On, Nobody Home As ILM Fails
  139. ZFS On Leopard: How Cool Is That?
  140. Apple Mojo In High-End Storage
  141. Bring Me The Head Of WinFS
  142. POHO, POHM: Storage, Access And Music
  143. Online Storage I Could Use
  144. Pimp My Standard: Vendor Theatre of the Absurd
  145. Memo to Intel: 2 GB Of RAM Isn’t Enough
  146. Backup Cheatsheet: Backing Up and Letting Go
  147. Disaster Tolerance Gets Up Close and Personal
  148. Reprint “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” Every 5 Years?
  149. Quick Disk Erase: Harder Than You Think
  150. Ray Ozzie’s Question: Are You Ready?
  151. Intel RAID Inside
  152. White Box Arrays Are Here. w00t!
  153. Google’s 450,000 Processor Supercomputer
  154. ZFS: Now With More Mojo
  155. Storage Revolution & Aperi Are Dead. w00t!
  156. NetApp’s Battle Shots
  157. iSCSI From Scratch – For Very Little Scratch
  158. Panic In Spindle Park
  159. 14 New Storage Vendor Price Lists
  160. 64GB Flash Drive For the Mother of All Trojans
  161. Pandora’s Flash Drive: Beware Free USB Drives
  162. 3PAR Price List
  163. Seagate’s CEO Dreams of Big Disk Market & High Stock Price
  164. 25x Backup Compression: History
  165. Ps-s-t. Wanna Buy Some Pillar Data?
  166. More On Cnet’s Haystack Storage
  167. Openomy.com – Not Just Storage, An Online File System
  168. Cleversafe: Yet Another Online Storage Startup
  169. Online Storage Stays Offline In The Market
  170. Go Long On Storage
  171. Petabytes In The Sky With Diamonds
  172. Capitalism and Morality
  173. ZFS: Threat or Menace? Pt. II
  174. The Latest Security Drill
  175. Time For Google Layoffs – Starting With Eric
  176. Put A Pathetic Old PC Back To Work Today
  177. ZFS: Threat or Menace? Pt. I
  178. USB Thumb Drive Working Environment From Lexar
  179. Ebay, Yahoo [Ehoo? Yabay?] vs Googzilla
  180. John William Toigo Responds, Pt II
  181. MyLifeBits, NIMD, NSA and You. Or Rather, Us.
  182. Killing With Kindness: Death By Big Iron
  183. Welcome DrunkenData.com Readers
  184. Flash Garden: 16 GB USB Drive Price Drop
  185. John William Toigo Responds
  186. The Open Source Storage Revolution Everyone Should Join
  187. Google File System Eval: Part II
  188. Tape On Steroids Hits Home Run
  189. Google File System Eval: Part I
  190. EMC Price List On Line – A Nicely Formatted PDF
  191. Adding Extra Storage To A PC
  192. Good Storage Needs Bad Competitors
  193. Wilting Under StorageMojo Criticism, Sun’s Canepa Resigns
  194. StorageMojo’s Pricing Guides
  195. Dell Storage Blues
  196. The Virtualization of Stuff: The Post-Stuff World
  197. When CIOs Speak, Listen Behind The Words
  198. RFPs For The Rest Of Us
  199. Credit Where Credit is Due
  200. Sun’s Honeycomb: Google Style Storage In A Box
  201. 25x Backup Data Compression Further Explained
  202. Maxtor in the Home? How about the Business?
  203. Make The StorageMojo 321 Margarita With A Dead Hard Drive
  204. Identity Theft & Fraud: Not Our Problem To Solve
  205. Quantum & ADIC: Together At Last
  206. A Free NAS Server With Your Fill Up, Ma’am?
  207. EMC Investment in YottaYotta Confirmed
  208. The Shot Heard ‘Round the Data Center
  209. So Mr. Tucci, Where Are EMC’s Google Application Notes?
  210. EMC Buys Distributed Caching Technology For Coming Google Battle
  211. 1TB Arrays: Stack ’em High, Sell ’em Cheap
  212. 25x Data Compression Made Simple
  213. Build an Electric Lock Pick From An Old Hard Drive
  214. Flash Garden: 16 GB USB drive
  215. Rotational Vibration Safeguard: Selling the Wet in Water?
  216. Password Misses and Myths
  217. 25x Compression? I’ll See You & Double Down: 50x!
  218. Gee, “Users Cite ILM Shortfalls” – Maybe ILM IS Bunk
  219. Solid State Disks Enter a New Market – Again!
  220. RAID 5 – Do the Math!
  221. SOHO RAID: $0.88/GB
  222. Saving the Internet for Business: Data Retention vs Rights Retention
  223. Military Secrets for Sale: Data Insecurity In Afghanistan
  224. Continuous Data Cluelessness — why doesn’t the storage industry give us more of what we want and less of what we don’t?
  225. Intel Punts Storage?
  226. SSN Fraud – Again!
  227. SAS Storage Review: Bye-bye UltraSCSI
  228. Data Security: A Modest Proposal
  229. Today’s Coolest Product At Storage Networking World
  230. Compressing encrypted data-you can’t get there from here
  231. Coolest Product at Storage Networking World (so far)
  232. Google’s Gdrive: a boon for small business?
  233. Holographic Storage: Yet Another Breakthrough

2005 7

  1. Curse of the Mummy: Sun Wrapped in Tape
  2. Let’s get perpendicular!
  3. Daddy, tell me again how little EMC beat giant IBM . . .
  4. Veritas Goes Quietly Into That Good Night
  5. The Bloody Axe Falls On . . . Carly
  6. Hats off to Hitachi Holography
  7. Honeycomb full of holes?

2004 11

  1. The Limits of Flash
  2. Amnesiac PCs: $100 Gets You Only Partial Amnesia
  3. Is Storage Important? Don Valentine Speaks Out
  4. Sun’s Sorry Storage Story
  5. EMC, Dell: Dantz with the one who brung ya
  6. ILM is Bunk
  7. Amnesiac PCs: A Product Whose Time Will Never Come
  8. HP’s Storage Grid-lock: panic-stricken execs promise fix in four years
  9. Buy me! No, buy me! The Castle Anthrax virgins & Oracle
  10. Storage & Cosmology
  11. Hulking Data Systems