by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For decades customers routinely overconfigured storage arrays to get performance. Customers bought the most costly hard drives – 15k SAS or FC – at huge markups. Then they’d short stroke the already limited capacity of these high cost drives –...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Avere announced this afternoon that they’ve closed a Series E round of $14 million, bringing their total funding to a cool $97 million. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital and Western Digital...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team is attending the Usenix File and Storage Technology (FAST) ’17 conference. As usual, there is lots of great content. But only one paper – this year – gets the StorageMojo Best Paper nod. The conference awarded...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 20, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its opening when IBM whiffed on the storage array business. IBM had no...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence (DirectCI) agent uses deep machine learning to identify the files most...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
IBM was the driving force in the computer industry beginning with the advent of the IBM 360 mainframe family. Their big idea was to build a family of computer systems that all ran the same software and, generally, used the same peripherals. The IBM 360 was a brilliant...
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