by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 8, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Sad to see them fail. But it was never going to be easy to maintain a highly available cloud at much lower scale than Amazon or Microsoft while also paying account teams to work closely with customers to configure the right solution. In short, all of the costs of an...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 | Off-Topic |
IDC has recently been promoting the idea of file and object based storage as a segment. While market segmentation is more art than science, putting file and object based storage in the same segment obscures the true shape of the storage industry. Why this matters Done...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management |
Part of a continuing series on competing with the cloud What is needed to verify cloud service level agreements? Good question. Authors Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg, Gregory Chockler, IBM Research UK, Nuno...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 22, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Enterprise IT wore out its welcome with the glass-house priesthood schtick about 30 years ago. But they were the only game in town, so the rest of the company had to suck it up. But no more. Amazon Web Services – and many other cloud services such as the premium...
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