by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure’s Matt Kixmoeller saw the Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea post and, unsurprisingly, responded. The SSD is Key to Economic Flash Arrays is a good post and I urge interested readers to check it out. Pure has a stellar team with deep experience. Their views...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
A hardware storage controller is an expensive guarantee that you’re using old technology to handle your most important data. Hardware specs are frozen early in the typical 18-24 month development cycle so by the time you get your “new” controller it...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Chuck Hollis blogged about The Vendor Beating a couple of months ago. The unspoken question in the post is “how do we understand what customers are telling us?” He writes As an employee of a large IT vendor, I’ve been at the receiving end...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Reader Kyle asks a good question: SANs are advertised up the wazoo as having lots of internal redundancy such as redundant power, redundant controllers, etc. I’ve spent enough time with redundancy to know that having two pieces of hardware often doesn’t...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
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