by Robin Harris | Monday, May 23, 2011 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A new media adventure StorageMojo is decamping to Silicon Valley tomorrow. On Thursday I’ll be doing my first webinar – ever – with Dan Leary of Nimble Storage on the topic Not Just a Flash in the Pan: Proven Strategies for Successful SSD Deployment...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
JIm Gray’s comment that disk is the new tape is truer today than it was 8 years ago. We’ve been adding caches, striping disks, modifying applications and performing other unnatural acts to both reduce and accommodate random reads and writes to disk. Flash...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage |
Iron Mountain plans to either sell or shutter its digital archiving, eDiscovery and online backup and recovery solutions. Why? Investors driving management IM has been under pressure from a couple of funds that invested in the company and want board representation....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forget the flame wars over moving window versus fixed block de-duplication. A recent paper, A Study of Practical Deduplication (pdf) from William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research and Dutch T. Meyer of the University of British Columbia found that whole file...
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