by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 16, 2017 | Architecture, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Panasas has long been one of the most innovative storage companies – and the industry’s best kept secret. The latter fact is due to their focus on High Performance Computing (HPC), and a steadfast refusal to market themselves as “enterprise”...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Hyperconvergence – aka aggregation – is pushing scale-out architectures in one direction. But Rack Scale Design (RSD) – aka disaggregation – is pushing scale-out in another direction. And Composable Infrastructure is hoping to split the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 24, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
I wrote about how clouds fail on ZDNet today, but there was another wrinkle in the paper that I found interesting: high redundancy hurts. Counter intuitive? This comes from the paper Gray Failure: The Achilles’ Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems, by Peng Huang, Chuanxiong...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 19, 2017 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Adapting to NVRAM is going to be a lengthy process. This was pointed out by a recent paper. More on that later. Thankfully, Intel wildly pre-announced 3D XPoint. That has spurred OS and application vendors to consider how it might affect their products. As we saw with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In response to yesterday’s StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challenge customer who mentions your blog post.— Brian Carmody...
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