by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Bill’s recent Usenix bio says that “. . . DSSD,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 15, 2013 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo is focussed on new storage technologies, products, companies and markets. And where do new technologies come from? From people researching at the limits of the known. That’s why StorageMojo attends the Usenix File And Storage Technology (FAST)...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 9, 2013 | Future Tech |
The StorageMojo team has been hankering to see some bright lights and – just maybe – avoid some more mountain snow and cold. So its off to the fleshpots of Silicon Valley to see what’s been cooked up at the File And Storage Technology ’13. If...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 25, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise |
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on that legacy with a radical take on enterprise storage. HP calls it...
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