by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Unpacking the data services vs performance metric debate. Why we should stop the IOPS wars and focus on latency. IOPS is not that important for most data centers today because flash arrays are so much faster than the storage they replace. That’s why the first...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 17, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing |
It used to be so simple: EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and the captive storage businesses of systems companies. Add in some fast running startups, such as today’s Nimble, Nutanix and Avere, to keep things interesting. But no more. While the startups will require several...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 10, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC buying TwinStrata to put on VMAX. The StorageMojo take First of all I hope Nicos and John made out like bandits. Not likely without a bidding war – I haven’t heard of one – but they did a good job building TS. One of the attractions for EMC is...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Yesterday’s post on IOPS vs latency provoked some controversy on Twitter. Kappy, CTO of a midwestern IT consultancy, asserted @storagemojo Most AFA users don’t even care about latency. Sure there are latency sensitive apps, but data services are more...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 23, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. In the last post StorageMojo discussed HP’s POD systems, which have a PUE (Power Use Efficiency) as low as 1.1, competitive with Google and Amazon. But what about your existing...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
A post in the occasional Competing with the Cloud series intended for enterprise IT. Ten years ago few datacenter managers considered PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness – the ratio of total facility power divided by IT equipment power – as a competitive...
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