by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 | Enterprise, Information Management, Management, SAN, FC |
On the 11th StorageMojo asked what workloads are ideal for enterprise arrays on a price/performance basis – and got some good answers. In all cases commenters are expressing their personal opinions and not the official policy of any company they may work for....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 11, 2013 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Some commenters defending traditional storage have stated that flash arrays are not ideal for every workload. I couldn’t agree more. But that begs the real question: what are the high-cost, big iron arrays like the Symm good for? Functional obsolescence If we...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 8, 2013 | Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s XtremIO product is launching next week on November 14. This is the beginning of the end for EMC’s Symmetrix line and the toughest product transition they’ve ever attempted. You may recall last year when StorageMojo decrypted the content of a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing |
I’ve been analyzing Amazon’s 10Q and 10K filings. While Amazon does not break out AWS revenues – they’re part of the “other” segment – with a few judicious assumptions, a look at revenue growth, investments, and the deltas...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 8, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Sad to see them fail. But it was never going to be easy to maintain a highly available cloud at much lower scale than Amazon or Microsoft while also paying account teams to work closely with customers to configure the right solution. In short, all of the costs of an...
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