by Robin Harris | Monday, August 13, 2012 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Management |
“Call home” support has been standard in large arrays for 15 years. But Nimble Storage has kicked it up a notch with their advanced telemetry data from installed systems. It gives new meaning to the term “after-sale support.” Talk to me Their...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 8, 2011 | Backup, SOHO/SMB, Video |
Several readers have written in lately with roughly the same question: what’s the best way to build cheap home bulk storage? Here’s how 1 writer put it: I was hoping you could provide me with some advice. I have so many external drives that I have to swap....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB, Video |
I sat down with Nimble Storage co-founder and VP of engineering Varun Mehta to discuss their architecture – and shoot some video. Varun has been part of several Valley success stories – NetApp, Sun, Data Domain – and has a first hand perspective on...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise |
Quantum announced a new deduplication appliance series – the DXi 6701 and 6702 – that claims exceptional scalability. Why? Because it uses technology from Quantum’s StorNext cluster file system. Scale out Quantum says the units grow from 8 to 80TB of...
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 8, 2010 | Architecture, Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Talked to Nimble Storage a few months ago. The 1st time they sounded cool and now I know why. What they do Nimble builds a converged storage appliance out of commodity hard drives and SSDs that offers high performance – is there any other kind? – and...
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