by Robin Harris | Friday, February 14, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work presented at FAST that it seems unfair to pick just a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over on ZDnet this morning I wrote about a FAST ’14 paper modeling how a PCM SSD could be used in a hybrid – PCM SSD, flash SSD, HDD – storage system. For an academic research paper, this one is refreshingly focussed on business case enabled by...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Seagate’s Kinetic Vision moves closer to reality. Seagate is continuing their Kinetic Open Storage program with a couple of tools announced and demo’d at the Open Compute conference in San Jose today. I’m not there, but I’m glad to see the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 12, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Last year StorageMojo interviewed Violin Memory CEO Don Basile. He noted that as flash features sizes shrank, NAND would get slower as well as reducing endurance. Intellectually that is correct, but it isn’t an easy concept. Flash stores a physical thing –...
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