by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
DSSD, the Valley startup acquired by EMC last year (see EMC goes all in with DSSD) is continuing to hire at an accelerating rate. Informed sources put the current DSSD team at 160 heads with plans to grow it to 800 over the next year. This is a program in a hurry....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago StorageMojo learned that a VMAX 20k could support up to 2400 3TB drives, it can only address ≈2PB. Where did the remaining 5 petabytes go? Some theories were advanced in the comments, and I spoke to other people about the mystery. No one would...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 4, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Remember Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas – but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei’s UDS – Universal Distributed Storage – system launched two years ago with a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 30, 2014 | Disk, Enterprise |
This is a StorageMojo summary of technical research. The effect of temperature on disk drives: shorten their life or not? Most studies say no – including a new one – but Microsoft/UVA researchers seem to disagree. Backblaze published a detailed blog post...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Seagate’s Kinetic Vision moves closer to reality. Seagate is continuing their Kinetic Open Storage program with a couple of tools announced and demo’d at the Open Compute conference in San Jose today. I’m not there, but I’m glad to see the...
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