by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, Object storage |
The economics of massive scale-out storage systems has thrown a harsh light on legacy enterprise storage. Expensive, inflexible, under-utilized data silos are not what data intensive enterprises need or – increasingly – can afford. That much is obvious to...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 6, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Formation Data Systems announced a soft launch a few weeks ago with a $24M round – hefty for a software play – and one of the investors is Kumar Malavalli, the smart guy behind Brocade. StorageMojo spoke to FDS CEO Mark Lewis. The what Formation is focused...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 24, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
What’s next for the shadow IT industry? It should be obvious: after blowing up the storage and server business models, what’s left? Networking Amazon has been working on their own networking software and hardware for several years. While networks...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 17, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The first post on shadow IT looked at R&D spend. Now we look at CapEx spend – specifically PP&E – property, plant and equipment. That’s where new datacenters, servers, storage and networks go. Big Spend The FY13 PP&E spend in billions...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Why is enterprise infrastructure so costly and inflexible while warehouse-scale computing is cost-effective and flexible? Is it: a) Enterprise infrastructure is too capital intensive? b) Warehouse-scale people are smarter? c) High-scale systems can’t be reduced...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 26, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Disk drives and flash are already pushing the limits of nanotechnology to increase density. But what if we went with encoding data directly into molecules? Does a petabyte per cc sound interesting? In Advances in Macromolecular Data Storage, Masud Mansuripur, a...
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