by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. Why? IBM and the 7 dwarves Back when mainframes ruled the earth, IBM faced a hardy band of competitors that had their own processor...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 25, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise |
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on that legacy with a radical take on enterprise storage. HP calls it...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, Information Management, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Information Management |
I’ve had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It’s been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could afford, be it block, file or object. Google’s...
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