by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years – well more than a decade in Internet time. I don’t look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google and Amazon have armies of PhDs to design, manage and diagnose their scale-out systems. Few small to medium sized businesses do – nor should they – but they should still have the advantages of scale-out infrastructure. Imagine infrastructure that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 17, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing |
It used to be so simple: EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and the captive storage businesses of systems companies. Add in some fast running startups, such as today’s Nimble, Nutanix and Avere, to keep things interesting. But no more. While the startups will require several...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 10, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC buying TwinStrata to put on VMAX. The StorageMojo take First of all I hope Nicos and John made out like bandits. Not likely without a bidding war – I haven’t heard of one – but they did a good job building TS. One of the attractions for EMC is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 23, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. In the last post StorageMojo discussed HP’s POD systems, which have a PUE (Power Use Efficiency) as low as 1.1, competitive with Google and Amazon. But what about your existing...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. Ten years ago few datacenter managers considered PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness – the ratio of total facility power divided by IT equipment power – as a competitive...
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