by Robin Harris | Monday, June 5, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with an innovative marketing wrinkle. That’s what Infinidat has done...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago Dell EMC announced the demise of the once promising DSSD all flash array. They are planning to incorporate DSSD technology into their other products. As StorageMojo noted 4 years ago, DSSD developed a lot of great technology. But for whatever...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 20, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its opening when IBM whiffed on the storage array business. IBM had no...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 6, 2017 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Violin Memory, one of the early entrants with an all-flash array, filed for bankruptcy last month. The company continues to operate under Chapter 11, but this is a sad outcome for a pioneer. So much for first mover advantage When I first met with Violin, the original...
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