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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 2, 2017 | Backup, Enterprise, Information Management |
Today is the last day of FAST 17. Yesterday a couple of hours were devoted to Work-in-Progress (WIP) reports. WIP reports are kept to 4 minutes and a few slides. One in particular caught my eye. In On Fault Resilience of File System Checkers, Om Rameshwar Gatla and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team is attending the Usenix File and Storage Technology (FAST) ’17 conference. As usual, there is lots of great content. But only one paper – this year – gets the StorageMojo Best Paper nod. The conference awarded...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 25, 2017 | Off-Topic |
An editorial comment This isn’t complicated. America has 325 million people, out of the world’s 7.4 billion, or about 4.4% of world’s population. Despite the numerical imbalance, America also has the world’s largest economy by most measures....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In this morning’s post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flash array market? Short answer: not good Today a Dell PowerEdge Express...
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