by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Nantero raised a $21 million round from investors. The company is one of StorageMojo’s favorite NVRAM vendors, because carbon nanotubes. I also like the fact that their process can use existing fabs, even fully depreciated ones, to build high-density vertical...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 18, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
In 2014 Gartner estimated that Amazon Web Services had 5x the utilized compute capacity of the rest of the cloud providers. There’s a couple of qualifiers there – utilized, compute – but as a rough guess, it looked like AWS had around an 80% market...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Ten years ago in Enterprise IT: the elephant’s graveyard I wrote about the upmarket trap: Engineering and marketing find it easy to justify fun new technology since a 10% goodness increase on a $500,000 machine is worth $50,000, while on a $1,000 machine it is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 24, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The internalization of storage is spawning another war – this time in memory interconnects. From Anandtech: This week sees the launch of the Gen-Z Consortium, featuring names such as ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Xilinx, with the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Can object storage ever be as fast as block storage? It turns out the answer is yes. And we already know how to do it. I was speaking to the CTO of ClearSky Data, Laz Vekiarides, about their block storage system for enterprise applications. They offer . . . a Global...
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