Unintended Consequences of Good IntentionsWell, I made a little mistake this week. I put a post on LinkedIn saying that I was willing to promote independent bloggers by including them in my Storage Short Take. Unfortunately, I wasn’t clear enough, and people thought that I was trying to hire bloggers for this blog. Ooops. While I can’t hire anyone (I don’t …
Storage Short Take #44
Striving for Independence!A lengthy one today. I’m trying to find more independent sources of news, rather than just the press releases that many vendors put out. If you happen to know of anyone who is writing good storage material, please feel free to let me know either through the contact form or via twitter. As always, links were live at time …
Storage Short Take #43
A short one this time…As always, links were active at the time of publication.Storage Media and TechnologyHere’s another article on using liquid media for storage capacity. Interestingly, there’s no discussion about the effect of temperature on a liquid-based storage medium. Micron has announced that their 232-layer SSD technology could have chip-level controller functions. What this means, in plain English, is that …
Storage Short Take #42
Back With Another Short TakeAfter a much needed rest, we’re back with another Storage Short Take. But, first things first. In case you missed it, I’m very pleased to have been selected as a “Top 50 Tech Blog” winner by the voters of the 2021 Poll run by Cisco. Storage blogs don’t often get much of a mention, so I’m …
Storage Short Take #41
Ugh, too long, too long…Sadly, time has flown by while life got in the way. Nevertheless, here is the 41st installation of the Storage Short Take.Storage Media and TechnologyThis is a really good article on ransomware, particularly the long-term risks for victims. Containers are an interesting technology, and are the foundation for a huge number of evolutionary developments in data …
jmetz.com is an IT Blog Awards Finalist
This is the first time that my blog has been recognized! I’ve been named a finalist in the IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco. Feel free to vote!
Storage Short Take #40
TCP finally becomes a true player for NVMe-oF, but what does that mean for RoCE? Also, CXL and Gen-Z have a MAJOR announcement.
Storage Short Take #39
Conference season hasn’t wound down completely, but we’re in the eye of the hurricane before the next round begins. Also, tape is definitely not dead.
Storage Short Take #38
Oodles of conferences, but fatigue is setting in. Storage media news, and new regulations that tear down privacy walls. For your “safety,” of course.
Storage Short Take #37
Major announcements at SDC, a bombshell from Dell, and many new and creative applications for NVMe.
Storage Short Take #36
It’s astonishing how many human miseries can be resolved through forgiveness and radical acceptance. Never forgiving is taking poison to punish someone else—the more you punish the sicker you get.
Storage Short Take #35
First, a bit of news. This is the first blog being published under the new site redesign. It may take me a while to get used to some of the fancy tools that it has, so bear with me as I try to get myself sorted. I’m a little behind, but a couple of weeks ago was Storage Field Day, …
Storage Short Take #34
Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.
Storage Short Take #33
Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.
Storage Short Take #32
Western Digital’s very, very bad week, Synology releases a major update to its NAS software, NVMe-oF begins to show some moves, and a really fun bonus round (hint: blast from the past!)