by Robin Harris | Monday, May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Our digital civilization requires data integrity and long-term preservation, and neither is assured by our current storage infrastructure. But progress continues. Latest case in point: Amplidata. This 4 year old company, based in Belgium with a growing US footprint,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Actually, StorageMojo is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. Umesh Maheshwari of Nimble Storage wrote a detailed and thoughtful response to the StorageMojo post Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea? The StorageMojo take Umesh makes good points, but perhaps due to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
More is coming on SSDs RSN, but in the meantime there is the following piece from Virsto’s Eric Burgener on HA considerations for SSDs. Virsto is a software company focused on making VIRtual STOrage for VMware and HyperV much more functional than the physical...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo offered its soapbox to any vendors willing to weigh in on the question of whether enterprise arrays should be built from flash SSDs or not. Ed Lee, architect at Tintri, formerly of Data Domain and a Berkeley Ph.D, elected to respond. It is a long piece but...
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