by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 4, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, Video |
If I were starting a storage company there are several things I’d do: Start up in an area where there was lots of storage engineering and marketing expertise. Get substantial financing once I had my first customers. Be aggressive about marketing the company. But...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise |
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 21, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, Information Management |
We want our data protected from device failures. When there is a failure we want to get our data back quickly. And we want to pay as little as possible for the protection and the restore. How? Recent research by hyper-scale system managers – mostly Microsoft and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growing? IDC definitions IDC defines a disk storage system broadly,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they’ve never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 3, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage...
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