by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 25, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise |
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on that legacy with a radical take on enterprise storage. HP calls it...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, Information Management, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Pravda, Chuck Hollis, chats in an interview about XtremIO’s problems. This quote from a Storage Newsletter interview may have some transcription errors, since SN is a French publication, but let’s not split hairs. Read it all to learn more....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Information Management |
I’ve had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It’s been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could afford, be it block, file or object. Google’s...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management |
Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving. FAST LTA AG, based in Munich, is headed by founder Matthias Zahn,...
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