by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they’ve never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 3, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. Why? IBM and the 7 dwarves Back when mainframes ruled the earth, IBM faced a hardy band of competitors that had their own processor...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 22, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In response to the post on Avere’s architecture for fronting backend NAS filers – where StorageMojo said that no front-end to NAS boxes has succeeded – alert reader Jacob Marley asked “What about F5′s ARX to stitch/balance storage across...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This came in this morning’s email from a reader I’ll call Perplexed. How would you advise Perplexed? I’m looking at a new iSCSI storage system for two sites with ~ 20 servers each – 10TB each should do it. Picture two fairly usual...
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