by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 | Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
If NetApp is going to save itself – see How doomed is NetApp? – it needs to change the way it’s doing business and how it thinks about its customers. Or it can continue as it is and accelerate into oblivion. NetApp’s problem NetApp is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
From their earliest days, people have reported that SSDs were not providing the performance they expected. As SSDs age, for instance, they get slower. But how much slower? And why? A common use of SSDs is for servers hosting virtual machines. The aggregated VMs create...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Scale out storage and Hadoop are a great duo for working with masses of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could also be used for more mundane storage tasks, like block storage? Well, it can. Some Silicon Valley engineers have produced a software front end for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 25, 2015 | Off-Topic |
StorageMojo is republishing this post to mark this Memorial Day, 2015. In a few months we will be marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War two as well. My father was a career Navy officer and this is a small part of his legacy. See the original post for...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 | Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
You are a small tech company. You have a marketing guy but it’s largely engineers solving problems that most people don’t even know exist. How do you get attention and respect at a low cost? Content marketing. When most people think about marketing, they...
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