by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management |
Part of a continuing series on competing with the cloud What is needed to verify cloud service level agreements? Good question. Authors Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg, Gregory Chockler, IBM Research UK, Nuno...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 22, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Enterprise IT wore out its welcome with the glass-house priesthood schtick about 30 years ago. But they were the only game in town, so the rest of the company had to suck it up. But no more. Amazon Web Services – and many other cloud services such as the premium...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 12, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Last year StorageMojo interviewed Violin Memory CEO Don Basile. He noted that as flash features sizes shrank, NAND would get slower as well as reducing endurance. Intellectually that is correct, but it isn’t an easy concept. Flash stores a physical thing –...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 18, 2013 | Backup, Enterprise, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
For reasons that elude me I accepted Asigra’s invitation to attend their Toronto Partner Summit last week. I’m glad I did. After all, I hate backup. Not because I like losing data, but because it reminds me how flaky digital storage is. Asigra is the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise |
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growing? IDC definitions IDC defines a disk storage system broadly,...
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