by Robin Harris | Monday, October 3, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
One more datapoint and we’ll have a trend: NoSQL databases managing metadata. It’s obvious in retrospect: use a scalable big data tool to handle scale-out metadata. Maybe not a requirement today, but surely will be with even bigger data tomorrow. Metadata...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 12, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost as if VMware were owned by a storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 29, 2011 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure Storage, a well-funded ($55M) valley startup, came out of hiding last week with a startling claim: enterprise flash that is cheaper1,2,3 than disk. 1Cheaper after compressing and deduping the data. 2Cheaper after using almost all the flash capacity, which you...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | Virtualization |
A shout out to all ‘worlders: the StorageMojo analyst team will be descending en masse on the lush Nevada desert (yes, in Phoenix real estate people often tout the “lush desert” – don’t they know what desert means?) to take in our 1st...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 8, 2011 | Backup, SOHO/SMB, Video |
Several readers have written in lately with roughly the same question: what’s the best way to build cheap home bulk storage? Here’s how 1 writer put it: I was hoping you could provide me with some advice. I have so many external drives that I have to swap....
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