by Robin Harris | Monday, November 8, 2010 | Architecture, Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Talked to Nimble Storage a few months ago. The 1st time they sounded cool and now I know why. What they do Nimble builds a converged storage appliance out of commodity hard drives and SSDs that offers high performance – is there any other kind? – and...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 22, 2010 | Future Tech |
StorageMojo’s Global HQ is pulling up stakes and traveling to wilds of Palo Alto for the OpenStorage Summit 2010. I’m hoping to hear more about the future of ZFS and other storage stacks. I’ll arrive Tuesday afternoon and will leave Thursday. If...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 18, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year’s Cloud Quadrant and this year’s Why private clouds are part of the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 11, 2010 | Off-Topic |
Prices give us valuable information about supply and demand – or market power – if we watch them. Commodity storage prices – disks, DRAM and NAND flash – are particularly interesting since they often make up a significant percent of a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 4, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
The friendly folks at Scality have put up $100,000 to encourage open source development of useful cloud storage bits. It’s open to anyone, not just grad students. Yup, it’s corporate self-interest at work – Scality sells object-based cloud storage...
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