by Robin Harris | Monday, June 19, 2017 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Adapting to NVRAM is going to be a lengthy process. This was pointed out by a recent paper. More on that later. Thankfully, Intel wildly pre-announced 3D XPoint. That has spurred OS and application vendors to consider how it might affect their products. As we saw with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In response to yesterday’s StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challenge customer who mentions your blog post.— Brian Carmody...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 5, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with an innovative marketing wrinkle. That’s what Infinidat has done...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, June 3, 2017 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Taking a vacation from the usual slog in NoAZ. I’m some 60 miles north of Seattle, working on my rain tan. The weatherman claims we’ll break 70 degrees sometime during my visit, but I’m not counting on it. Occasional patches of blue sky remind me of...
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