“Our central file system was getting hammered in a way it had never been hammered before. The NFS caches couldn’t go fast enough — they did not have enough RAM on them.” Greg Brandeau, Pixar

Garett Rogers, who clearly checks Google’s robots.txt before breakfast every day, spotted a new reference in it, to /uds/, which he speculates may refer to Google Unlimited Data Storage, a very uninspired product name for Gdrive.

Did you read Tony Asaro’s latest? In his blog he talks about the end of SAN and NAS – and he’s right. Do you think anyone really cares about SAN or NAS? If you aren’t in the storage business, it’s a good bet that you don’t.

As advanced consumer electronics like digital cameras, PDAs, multimedia mobile phones, and similar devices become increasingly affordable to the everyday user, we find ourselves having to keep track of more and more types of technology, which makes keeping all of our devices compatible with each other increasingly difficult.

Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2006 is covering a lot of new ground. One area of discussion is going to be interoperability and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) End User Council (EUC) will attempt to explain the issues surrounding interoperability.

The online retailer has added a new service for users: a low-cost virtual closet where people can put in and take out their data online, and pay for just what they store and transfer.

We’re living in interesting times. With today’s release of Amazon.com’s S3 on-line storage service, we’re one step closer to the cheap on-line storage that so many don’t believe will be useful.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) leapt into their first foray of the small-business channel business in a global distribution deal with Ingram Micro Inc. The distribution deal will cover small business units with fewer than 200 users and four to 20 servers.

Longmont, Colorado-based Cornice Inc. announced in January a new deal inked with Samsung for their 3 gigabyte Storage Element (SE) in the production of Samsung’s SGH-i300 embedded music smartphone.

IDG announced in a statement on Monday the worldwide storage software market grew 10% over the year to $2.1 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2005, marking eight consecutive quarters of double-digit growth.

Sometimes the simple things amaze me (or amuse me) most. Here are a few I’ve come across on this trip …

As reported in several sources Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy for an undisclosed sum of money.

MCI launched a new service last week aimed at enterprise customers in the form of storage on-demand. The new service, called Utility Storage Service, is designed for enterprise customers who need flexibility in their utility storage.

The company announced its largest and fastest storage solution on Monday, the Symmetrix DMX-3.

With the popularity of Google’s email service continuing to grow, the search engine has continued to tweak Gmail’s abilities in order to the growing number of international users who’ve shown interest in using the service.

The hard drive company’s perpendicular technology offers 160 GB of storage, which will make laptops even more attractive to buyers.

Consumers who have been favoring notebook computers over desktop machines now have more reason to choose a laptop.

Iomega Corp. announced yesterday that is has received a patent for a nanotechnology storage method that will allow up to 100 times the capacity on DVDs.

A prototype of the new DVD arrived in Tokyo yesterday, and it doubles the first generation Blu-ray capacity of 50GB.

General Electric’s financial services unit, GE Commercial Finance is selling Storage USA for $2.3 billion in cash.

A data storage firm has lost a group of important computer back-up tapes that belong to Time Warner.