by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Seagate’s Kinetic Vision moves closer to reality. Seagate is continuing their Kinetic Open Storage program with a couple of tools announced and demo’d at the Open Compute conference in San Jose today. I’m not there, but I’m glad to see the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 23, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
IBM’s vestigial hardware business – 15.5% of Q4 company revenue – continues to slide. This won’t end well. In its Q4/2013 earnings call, IBM’s profits were higher than forecast, but revenues were lower. Hardware was the major culprit....
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 13, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech |
WD is sampling SMR – Shingled Magnetic Recording – disk drives to several cloud vendors including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Seagate announced sales of a million SMR drives in September. HGST likely has a similar program under way. SMR in a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing |
I’ve been analyzing Amazon’s 10Q and 10K filings. While Amazon does not break out AWS revenues – they’re part of the “other” segment – with a few judicious assumptions, a look at revenue growth, investments, and the deltas...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
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