by Robin Harris | Friday, June 27, 2014 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
NVRAM maker Crossbar’s co-founder and professor at U Michigan Wei Lu has published a paper describing a never-before-seen phenomena: metal nanoparticles moving in a solid. Crossbar is pushing RRAM – Resistance RAM – but there is a problem with most...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 23, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. In the last post StorageMojo discussed HP’s POD systems, which have a PUE (Power Use Efficiency) as low as 1.1, competitive with Google and Amazon. But what about your existing...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. Ten years ago few datacenter managers considered PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness – the ratio of total facility power divided by IT equipment power – as a competitive...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, Object storage |
An architect and regular StorageMojo reader faces a perplexing problem: should he move his organization’s archive from tape to object storage? The first question is, of course, is it technically feasible? The economics come next. Here’s his problem...
Recent Comments