by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This is big. In new SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 tests Avere’s FXT 3800 clustered edge filers achieved something remarkable: performance using Cleversafe and Amazon S3 cloud backends that were every bit as good as local backing stores. Avere tested 4 systems: A 32-node...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 6, 2014 | Video |
As a reward for good behavior StorageMojo’s top analysts will be attending NAB for a couple of days. Today the HP briefing this afternoon and the ShowStoppers official press event this evening. Then it is a very full day Monday – mostly in the lower South...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
It’s been a rule of thumb for the last 30+ years that any functionality implemented in hardware will surely migrate to software. But that is starting to change. At the beginning of a new application – say RAID controllers – the volumes are low and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Object storage |
Back in 2006 – before Barack Obama was famous – StorageMojo evaluated the Google File System and concluded Looking at the whole gestalt, even assuming GFS were for sale, it is a niche product and would not be very successful on the open market. As a model...
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