by Robin Harris | Monday, March 31, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Object storage |
Back in 2006 – before Barack Obama was famous – StorageMojo evaluated the Google File System and concluded Looking at the whole gestalt, even assuming GFS were for sale, it is a niche product and would not be very successful on the open market. As a model...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 16, 2014 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Last year Nimble Storage was the poster boy for rapid growth and success. But that was last year. This year there’s a new poster boy: Nutanix. I spoke to VP Howard Ting last year about what was driving Nutanix. After all, the concept of a building block...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 4, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, Video |
If I were starting a storage company there are several things I’d do: Start up in an area where there was lots of storage engineering and marketing expertise. Get substantial financing once I had my first customers. Be aggressive about marketing the company. But...
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