by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Price Lists, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
On March 29, 2006, StorageMojo.com published its first posts to universal indifference. The indifference didn’t last long: the second week of StorageMojo’s existence I published 25x Data Compression Made Simple. The post was /.’d and the vituperation...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 21, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Intel is promising availability of 3D Xpoint non-volatile memory (NVM) this year, at least in their Optane SSDs. But Xpoint DIMMS are coming soon, and neither will give you anything close to 1,000x performance boost. In a recent paper, NOVA: A Log-structured File...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Here’s a good question: why are cloud vendors able to innovate so much faster than legacy vendors? AWS brags about the hundreds of new features and services they implement every year – and their accelerating pace. But here’s a better question: why...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 3, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Why do we focus on I/O? Because our architectures are all about moving data to the CPU. But why is that the model? Because Turing and von Neumann? Universal Turing Machines (UTM) have a fixed read/write head and a movable tape that stores data, instructions and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
If, like me, you’re interested in AI and deep learning, you’ll like this. Neural networks are all the rage in AI, but there is a newer technology – Gödel machines – that is now a standard part of the AI toolset. What is a Gödel machine? From...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Infinite io’s Network Storage Controller (NSC) is a rarity in enterprise storage: an original and unique device. It turns your file storage network into a software defined resource. But it’s not a file server, a caching controller or an intelligent front...
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