by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
I was hoping to go to this year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, as I did last year, but no joy. Not enough press passes to go around, I was told. But then I learned that AWS limited press and analyst passes to fewer than 30, much to the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Marketing |
EMC’s Joe Tucci has long been the smartest CEO in storage. While not every one of his bets has paid off, enough have done well, while the VMware $625M buy was a monster smash. Since VMware accounts for some 70% of EMC’s market cap, it is really the only...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 24, 2015 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Fall is finally starting in the high desert. October is a wonderful month for a visit. This picture, taken from near the top of the Cibola trail, imperfectly captures one of my favorite views. Several vertical rocks and spires create a tense, 3D arrangement of...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Infinite io’s Network Storage Controller (NSC) is a rarity in enterprise storage: an original and unique device. It turns your file storage network into a software defined resource. But it’s not a file server, a caching controller or an intelligent front...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 28, 2015 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Maybe software will eat the world, but sometimes the physical world gives software indigestion. That fact was evident at the Flash Memory Summit this month. As mentioned in Flash slaying the latency dragon? several companies were showing remote storage accesses...
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