by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Volume shipments of 3D NAND flash could arrive in 2016, if Toshiba’s and SanDisk’s plans bear fruit. Fab 5 at their Yokkaichi campus is expected to install a 3D pilot line in 2H15. The project is funded jointly with SanDisk. Samsung started sampling 128Gb,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 8, 2014 | Off-Topic |
I long ago concluded that storage is the most difficult problem in information technology because entropy is always working to destroy our data. But then I came across this from a speech given by British mathematician, computer theorist and pioneer and Bletchley Park...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn’t care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 5, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The drama with XtremIO’s delays only whetted EMC’s appetite for more drama. Or the hot breath of competition and declining VMAX sales. Let’s go with the latter. StorageMojo has been following DSSD for some time. The core of the Sun ZFS team, Jeff...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Reactions to the post on Amazon’s Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening – with one savvy observation that I wish I’d made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert) and received 40+ comments. Alternate ideas A...
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