by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage, Off-Topic |
The fine folks at Scality send out a new year book of photos and – of course – promos. This year caught my attention because, as a fan of modern art, especially those with Cadillacs, they gen’d up a photo of a disk drive displayed like one of the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, Virtualization |
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage systems optimize archiving. Back in April of 2012, IDC produced a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 18, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
In 2014 Gartner estimated that Amazon Web Services had 5x the utilized compute capacity of the rest of the cloud providers. There’s a couple of qualifiers there – utilized, compute – but as a rough guess, it looked like AWS had around an 80% market...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Ten years ago in Enterprise IT: the elephant’s graveyard I wrote about the upmarket trap: Engineering and marketing find it easy to justify fun new technology since a 10% goodness increase on a $500,000 machine is worth $50,000, while on a $1,000 machine it is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Can object storage ever be as fast as block storage? It turns out the answer is yes. And we already know how to do it. I was speaking to the CTO of ClearSky Data, Laz Vekiarides, about their block storage system for enterprise applications. They offer . . . a Global...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Object storage |
Nutanix – NTNX – has started off with a bang: opening at $16 a share and quickly rising to almost $30. It’s trading at $36 as I write. Now for the hard part Everyone is no doubt counting how much they’ve made on that spectacular beginning. But...
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