by Robin Harris | Friday, February 14, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work presented at FAST that it seems unfair to pick just a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over on ZDnet this morning I wrote about a FAST ’14 paper modeling how a PCM SSD could be used in a hybrid – PCM SSD, flash SSD, HDD – storage system. For an academic research paper, this one is refreshingly focussed on business case enabled by...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 23, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
IBM’s vestigial hardware business – 15.5% of Q4 company revenue – continues to slide. This won’t end well. In its Q4/2013 earnings call, IBM’s profits were higher than forecast, but revenues were lower. Hardware was the major culprit....
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 | Monday, December 9, 2013 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If a well-funded startup came to you and asked you to bet your business on a brand-new architecture and product, what would you say? “I’ll wait” is a likely answer. So why is it any different when that start up product comes from EMC? You could argue...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 3, 2013 | Enterprise |
The crack StorageMojo analyst team will be attending HP Discover next week in beautiful Barcelona. There is a new guard in the ESSN group now that Dave Donatelli has moved on. HP is going through a particularly tough product transition. But, unlike EMC, HP is doing it...
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