by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
It’s been a rule of thumb for the last 30+ years that any functionality implemented in hardware will surely migrate to software. But that is starting to change. At the beginning of a new application – say RAID controllers – the volumes are low and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Object storage |
Back in 2006 – before Barack Obama was famous – StorageMojo evaluated the Google File System and concluded Looking at the whole gestalt, even assuming GFS were for sale, it is a niche product and would not be very successful on the open market. As a model...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Good article today in SearchStorage about enterprise open source storage software (OSSS) adoption. StorageMojo is quoted, but the I found the survey results from the OpenStack Foundation interesting: OpenStack’s website lists more than 70 user groups around the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 13, 2014 | Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Remember this sad story from StorageMojo: They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO. . . . And NetApp was trying to strangle [them] (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
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