by Robin Harris | Monday, January 30, 2017 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
The Verde Valley is green because it has water. The Verde River is Arizona’s 2nd longest river, at 170 miles (the Little Colorado is longer) and in my neck of the woods flows through the towns of Clarkdale, Cottonwood, and Camp Verde. Yesterday I took my first...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage, Off-Topic |
The fine folks at Scality send out a new year book of photos and – of course – promos. This year caught my attention because, as a fan of modern art, especially those with Cadillacs, they gen’d up a photo of a disk drive displayed like one of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 6, 2017 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Violin Memory, one of the early entrants with an all-flash array, filed for bankruptcy last month. The company continues to operate under Chapter 11, but this is a sad outcome for a pioneer. So much for first mover advantage When I first met with Violin, the original...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 26, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
StorageMojo’s hike blogging has been on hiatus for a few months, due to a personal issue. But no worries! If all goes according to plan I will be better than new by the end of January. I’m more than ready! I’ve had to skip too many industry events,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, Virtualization |
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage systems optimize archiving. Back in April of 2012, IDC produced a...
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