by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Unpacking the data services vs performance metric debate. Why we should stop the IOPS wars and focus on latency. IOPS is not that important for most data centers today because flash arrays are so much faster than the storage they replace. That’s why the first...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 14, 2014 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note, a version of this post appeared this morning on ZDnet. Given that roughly a billion battery-powered computers are sold each year, you’d think that the engineers would be busy rearchitecting the storage stack to take advantage of built-in – and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Yesterday’s post on IOPS vs latency provoked some controversy on Twitter. Kappy, CTO of a midwestern IT consultancy, asserted @storagemojo Most AFA users don’t even care about latency. Sure there are latency sensitive apps, but data services are more...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 23, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. In the last post StorageMojo discussed HP’s POD systems, which have a PUE (Power Use Efficiency) as low as 1.1, competitive with Google and Amazon. But what about your existing...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, Object storage |
An architect and regular StorageMojo reader faces a perplexing problem: should he move his organization’s archive from tape to object storage? The first question is, of course, is it technically feasible? The economics come next. Here’s his problem...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
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