Archive | July, 2008
The impending storage crunch

The impending storage crunch

by Mike Davis on July 28, 2008 in Storage, Storage optimization

No one can miss the fact that data storage is spiraling upward at a terrifying rate. Joerg Hallbauer puts it on Dell‘s Future of Storage blog hit the nail on the head with his post: “We are running out of places to put things.” Citing data collected by IDC, Hallbauer concludes that in a mere [...]

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Capacity-Optimized Storage: The Emergence of the O Tier

Capacity-Optimized Storage: The Emergence of the O Tier

by Mike Davis on July 23, 2008 in Storage

  Everyone is talking about the explosive growth of storage, but all growth is not the same. In fact, unstructured data (files) are growing much faster than structured data (databases), and capacity-optimized storage for files is growing much faster than traditional filer-based storage. This is driving some key developments in storage technology, as storage offerings [...]

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In Startup City’s spotlight

by Mike Davis on July 21, 2008 in Featured, Storage

I was interviewed on video by John Foley for InformationWeek’s Startup City a month or so ago, and have just discovered that the video is now up on the site. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to explore this blog. Foley does a great job of covering the vast and growing landscape of IT [...]

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What’s Hot in Storage — Spending Less

What’s Hot in Storage — Spending Less

by Mike Davis on July 18, 2008 in Featured, Storage, Storage optimization

Byte & Switch has once again released its “Top 10 Storage Startups to Watch” for 2008, and it’s definitely worth a read. My company Ocarina Networks was on that same list last year, and so I can say with confidence that they got it right at least once before.  As reflected in this year’s list, data [...]

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Rackspace down – what’s the lesson?

Rackspace down – what’s the lesson?

by Mike Davis on July 10, 2008 in Uncategorized

TechCrunchIT reports today that one of Rackspace’s data centers went down overnight due to a cooling issue. This is the second outage in recent months for the company, as they also went down in November after a car accident knocked out their power. Fact is, data centers are becoming more and more complex, and the [...]

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