by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
We knew this moment would come. According to William Blair, a British broker, their data networking and storage tracker (as quoted by the most excellent Chris Mellor in The Reg) sees that Despite Cisco’s public commentary about not wanting to leverage its Whiptail...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC World is in Las Vegas this year, a short drive from the StorageMojo Global HQ. Requested a press pass in February. No response. Repeated request a couple of weeks ago and got this answer: At this time the press and analyst programs are at full capacity and we are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This is big. In new SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 tests Avere’s FXT 3800 clustered edge filers achieved something remarkable: performance using Cleversafe and Amazon S3 cloud backends that were every bit as good as local backing stores. Avere tested 4 systems: A 32-node...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Good article today in SearchStorage about enterprise open source storage software (OSSS) adoption. StorageMojo is quoted, but the I found the survey results from the OpenStack Foundation interesting: OpenStack’s website lists more than 70 user groups around the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 13, 2014 | Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Remember this sad story from StorageMojo: They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO. . . . And NetApp was trying to strangle [them] (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
Thoughts about cloud. The economic basis is two-fold: economies of massive scale; and, commodity parts. Scale The corollary to massive scale is monoculture. Monocultures have their advantages – look at America’s corn-growing prowess – but their...
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