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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 4, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, Video |
Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as well. Here’s what caught my eye. Object storage – often optimized for large files – continues to be a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 20, 2017 | Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A reader wrote to ask for the StorageMojo take on NetApp now, as opposed to the assessment in How doomed is NetApp? two years ago. Q3 had some good news for NetApp. In their latest 10Q filing, they noted that while revenues for the first 9 months of the year were down...
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