by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
HPE’s has offered to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B. The StorageMojo take This is a good move for both companies. HPE has the enterprise footprint that Nimble was spending big to build, and Nimble has an advanced and forward looking storage platform that will...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 2, 2017 | Backup, Enterprise, Information Management |
Today is the last day of FAST 17. Yesterday a couple of hours were devoted to Work-in-Progress (WIP) reports. WIP reports are kept to 4 minutes and a few slides. One in particular caught my eye. In On Fault Resilience of File System Checkers, Om Rameshwar Gatla and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In this morning’s post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flash array market? Short answer: not good Today a Dell PowerEdge Express...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence (DirectCI) agent uses deep machine learning to identify the files most...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
IBM was the driving force in the computer industry beginning with the advent of the IBM 360 mainframe family. Their big idea was to build a family of computer systems that all ran the same software and, generally, used the same peripherals. The IBM 360 was a brilliant...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, Virtualization |
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage systems optimize archiving. Back in April of 2012, IDC produced a...
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