by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Object storage |
In response to Building fast erasure coded storage, alert readers Petros Koutoupis and Ian F. Adams noted that advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) isn’t typically CPU limited. The real problem is network bandwidth. It turns out that the same team that...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 11, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
One of the decade’s grand challenges in storage is making efficient advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) fast enough to displace most file servers. Advanced erasure codes can give users the capability to survive four or more device failures – be...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which got me thinking about the next decade. Think of all the changes we’ve seen in the last 10 years: Cloud storage and computing that put a price on IT’s head Scale out object storage. Flash. Millions...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
I’m a guest of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise at Discover 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. I enjoy catching up with the only remaining full-line computer company. HP was a competitor in my DEC days, and since the Compaq purchase they incorporate the remains of...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 23, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
We’ve seen this movie before The value of legacy array intellectual property is collapsing. This isn’t complicated: SSDs have made IOPS – what hard drive arrays were optimizing for the last 25 years – easy and cheap. Think of all the hard-won...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There’s a gathering vendor storm pushing the all-flash datacenter as a solution to datacenter ills, such as high personnel costs and performance bottlenecks. There’s some truth to this, but its application is counter-intuitive. Most of the time, storage...
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