by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SAN, FC |
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don’t have an installed base – and a cash cow – to protect, you can go...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 25, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise |
25 years ago I was working on DEC’s earliest RAID array. When I look at today’s “high-end” arrays, it’s shocking how little architectural change the big iron arrays have embraced. The industry is ripe for disruption, only part of which is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
The co-founder of Equallogic, Paula Long, is heading up the new startup DataGravity. Their system takes advantage of active/active controllers to bring deep storage inspection to small and medium businesses. What they do DataGravity brings a new level of information...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google and Amazon have armies of PhDs to design, manage and diagnose their scale-out systems. Few small to medium sized businesses do – nor should they – but they should still have the advantages of scale-out infrastructure. Imagine infrastructure that...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, August 9, 2014 | Enterprise |
At Flash Memory Summit StorageMojo spoke to David Woolf and Kerry Munson of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. It’s been around for decades and still is. It is primarily staffed by college students – cheap labor – managed by senior...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 25, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Anyone looking at how flash SSDs have revolutionized power constrained mobile computing could be forgiven for thinking that all SSDs are power-efficient. But they’re not. In a recent Usenix HotStorage ’14 paper Power, Energy and Thermal Considerations in...
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