I gave a talk during a Birds-of-a-Feather session on "Long-Term Storage" at Usenix's FAST (File And Storage Technologies) meeting. Below the fold is an edited text with links to the sources.
I'm working on a long post about a lot of interesting developments in storage, but right now they are happening so fast I have to keep re-writing it. In the meantime, follow me below the fold for links to some recent posts on other topics that are really worth reading.