by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
A hardware storage controller is an expensive guarantee that you’re using old technology to handle your most important data. Hardware specs are frozen early in the typical 18-24 month development cycle so by the time you get your “new” controller it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 27, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
FAST – File and Storage Technology – is a must-see conference for StorageMojo, and I’ll be reviewing several Best Papers from FAST ’12 . While most emerging technology is developed in private company labs, FAST is where much of the first...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 19, 2012 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If SSDs are so great, shouldn’t we see the results in TPC-C benchmarks? They are, and we do. But there are some surprises. Cost Looking at the TPC-C top 10 performance results showed the dramatic impact SSDs have had on the cost per thousand transactions (tpmC)....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
BlueArc and Drobo founder Geoff Barrall has a new perch: Gridstore, one of the companies I’ve been following for almost 3 years. Geoff is the new executive chairman. Formal announcement is expected this week. Gridstore’s concept is a low-cost scale-out NAS...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Chuck Hollis blogged about The Vendor Beating a couple of months ago. The unspoken question in the post is “how do we understand what customers are telling us?” He writes As an employee of a large IT vendor, I’ve been at the receiving end...
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