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Building fast erasure coded storage

by Robin Harris | Monday, July 11, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage | 3 comments

One of the decade’s grand challenges in storage is making efficient advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) fast enough to displace most file servers. Advanced erasure codes can give users the capability to survive four or more device failures – be...

The top storage challenges of the next decade

by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 10 comments

StorageMojo recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which got me thinking about the next decade. Think of all the changes we’ve seen in the last 10 years: Cloud storage and computing that put a price on IT’s head Scale out object storage. Flash. Millions...

Enterprise storage goes inside

by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2016 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage | 3 comments

Some interesting numbers out of IDC by way of Chris Mellor of the Reg. First up: the entire enterprise storage market in the latest quarter: Note that HPE is #1. Then the numbers for the external enterprise storage market: HPE is now #3 with $535.7 million. The...

EMC perfumes the pig

by Robin Harris | Friday, June 10, 2016 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC | 7 comments

I feel sorry for EMC’s marketers: they have to make 10-20 year old technology seem au courant. It’s an uphill battle, but that’s why they get the big bucks. The latest effort to perfume the pig – hold still, dammit! – is EMC Unity. In a...

Commoditizing public clouds

by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage | 4 comments

I’m a guest of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise at Discover 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. I enjoy catching up with the only remaining full-line computer company. HP was a competitor in my DEC days, and since the Compaq purchase they incorporate the remains of...

Thunderbolt: a fast and cheap SAN

by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 2, 2016 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB | 1 comment

If memory serves – and mine often doesn’t – I asked a panel at the NVM Workshop at UCSD their opinion on using Thunderbolt as a cheap, fast, and flexible interconnect. After all, I thought, academics always need more than they can afford, so these...
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