by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Most of us know what it is like when a relationship goes bad: the sinking feeling that this just isn’t going to work. Can this configuration be saved? Dear StorageMojo: I joined a company last year that is running Oracle 10g on a NetApp NAS/SAN. Immediately I...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Architecture, Future Tech |
CPU performance and clock speed have leveled out over the last several years. What does this mean for the industry? Moore’s law Strictly speaking, Moore’s law says that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 to 24 months. And that’s...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 8, 2010 | Architecture, Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Talked to Nimble Storage a few months ago. The 1st time they sounded cool and now I know why. What they do Nimble builds a converged storage appliance out of commodity hard drives and SSDs that offers high performance – is there any other kind? – and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 18, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One infrastructure to rule them all discussed the emerging enterprise need for a single, scalable file storage infrastructure. But what infrastructure? Some background to this is last year’s Cloud Quadrant and this year’s Why private clouds are part of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, Virtualization |
Robert Gray, a former analyst at IDC and long time friend, asked me to respond to a comment from NetApp president Tom Georgens. Tom told Information Week that: . . . virtualization is fundamentally changing the way data centers are designed: instead of individual...
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