by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For decades customers routinely overconfigured storage arrays to get performance. Customers bought the most costly hard drives – 15k SAS or FC – at huge markups. Then they’d short stroke the already limited capacity of these high cost drives –...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, March 25, 2017 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
I’ve been hiking a lot the last couple of weeks, getting in shape after a long hiatus. Today I took a loop that I’ve never done counterclockwise and even though it shouldn’t have made much difference, it was a much more enjoyable hike. The loop began...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago Dell EMC announced the demise of the once promising DSSD all flash array. They are planning to incorporate DSSD technology into their other products. As StorageMojo noted 4 years ago, DSSD developed a lot of great technology. But for whatever...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Avere announced this afternoon that they’ve closed a Series E round of $14 million, bringing their total funding to a cool $97 million. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital and Western Digital...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
HPE’s has offered to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B. The StorageMojo take This is a good move for both companies. HPE has the enterprise footprint that Nimble was spending big to build, and Nimble has an advanced and forward looking storage platform that will...
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