by Robin Harris | Friday, October 17, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The first post on shadow IT looked at R&D spend. Now we look at CapEx spend – specifically PP&E – property, plant and equipment. That’s where new datacenters, servers, storage and networks go. Big Spend The FY13 PP&E spend in billions...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The power of the big IaaS players – Amazon, Google, Facebook, Azure (AGFA) – constitutes a shadow IT industry. It is a shadow because its operations are outside the transparency we take for granted with legacy IT vendors like IBM, HP, Cisco and Oracle....
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Why is enterprise infrastructure so costly and inflexible while warehouse-scale computing is cost-effective and flexible? Is it: a) Enterprise infrastructure is too capital intensive? b) Warehouse-scale people are smarter? c) High-scale systems can’t be reduced...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It was obvious in 2006 that Google’s clean-sheet GFS would revolutionize massive storage. The problem has been taking Google’s concepts and scaling them down to less than warehouse scale. A number of companies have tried – Nutanix is probably the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 12, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Erasure coded (EC) storage has achieved remarkable gains over current RAID arrays in fault-tolerance and storage efficiency, but the knock against it is performance. Sure, it’s highly available and cheap, but it’s slo-o-w. Advanced erasure codes –...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage |
Amplidata announced this morning that Western Digital Capital has made a $10m investment. HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions to address the...
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