by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Reactions to the post on Amazon’s Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening – with one savvy observation that I wish I’d made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert) and received 40+ comments. Alternate ideas A...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 28, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Seeking Alpha sometimes garbled transcript of EMC’s Q1 earnings call has some surprising revelations about XtremIO and EMC’s flash business. In its first full quarter general availability, XtremIO have continued its very strong momentum. We began...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 25, 2014 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? Long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for 1¢/GB while maintaining several copies across geographies. Pretty amazing. Less amazing now that disk prices are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 17, 2014 | Enterprise, Marketing |
When my children were little and cried due to a scraped knee, I would examine it gravely and then say: “This looks bad! Time to amputate!” That quieted them right down and, to my relief, they’ve grown up to be functional human beings working –...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
We knew this moment would come. According to William Blair, a British broker, their data networking and storage tracker (as quoted by the most excellent Chris Mellor in The Reg) sees that Despite Cisco’s public commentary about not wanting to leverage its Whiptail...
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