by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Hyperconvergence – aka aggregation – is pushing scale-out architectures in one direction. But Rack Scale Design (RSD) – aka disaggregation – is pushing scale-out in another direction. And Composable Infrastructure is hoping to split the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
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...
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 | Thursday, June 2, 2016 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB |
If memory serves – and mine often doesn’t – I asked a panel at the NVM Workshop at UCSD their opinion on using Thunderbolt as a cheap, fast, and flexible interconnect. After all, I thought, academics always need more than they can afford, so these...
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