by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 5, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Open vStorage is a new virtual storage system coming out of stealth mode. Designed to enable virtual machines to run directly from object storage, it is a layer between the hypervisor and the object store with the goal of turning object storage – as well as...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn’t care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Reactions to the post on Amazon’s Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening – with one savvy observation that I wish I’d made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert) and received 40+ comments. Alternate ideas A...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 25, 2014 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? Long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for 1¢/GB while maintaining several copies across geographies. Pretty amazing. Less amazing now that disk prices are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC World is in Las Vegas this year, a short drive from the StorageMojo Global HQ. Requested a press pass in February. No response. Repeated request a couple of weeks ago and got this answer: At this time the press and analyst programs are at full capacity and we are...
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