by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn’t care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 5, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The drama with XtremIO’s delays only whetted EMC’s appetite for more drama. Or the hot breath of competition and declining VMAX sales. Let’s go with the latter. StorageMojo has been following DSSD for some time. The core of the Sun ZFS team, Jeff...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Reactions to the post on Amazon’s Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening – with one savvy observation that I wish I’d made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert) and received 40+ comments. Alternate ideas A...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
It’s been a rule of thumb for the last 30+ years that any functionality implemented in hardware will surely migrate to software. But that is starting to change. At the beginning of a new application – say RAID controllers – the volumes are low and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Object storage |
Back in 2006 – before Barack Obama was famous – StorageMojo evaluated the Google File System and concluded Looking at the whole gestalt, even assuming GFS were for sale, it is a niche product and would not be very successful on the open market. As a model...
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