by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at Network Computing my friend Howard Marks took StorageMojo to task for questioning using commodity SSDs in solid state storage arrays. In his response he made several points about latency, bandwidth, cost and reliability. Latency [Robin] says that SAS/SATA...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Disk, SAN, FC |
Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO – at Coraid, Kevin Brown – has...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 7, 2012 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago – usually a bad sign – so an update was long overdue. When last heard from, Cleversafe had an ISP/MSP target market, offered an...
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