by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management |
Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving. FAST LTA AG, based in Munich, is headed by founder Matthias Zahn,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 13, 2012 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, Management |
“Call home” support has been standard in large arrays for 15 years. But Nimble Storage has kicked it up a notch with their advanced telemetry data from installed systems. It gives new meaning to the term “after-sale support.” Talk to me Their...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
As a movie buff I’m surprised by people who say something like “I saw The Godfather when it came out, so I don’t need to see it again.” One of the pleasures of re-watching a movie is seeing how memory of the movie differs from the movie itself:...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
More is coming on SSDs RSN, but in the meantime there is the following piece from Virsto’s Eric Burgener on HA considerations for SSDs. Virsto is a software company focused on making VIRtual STOrage for VMware and HyperV much more functional than the physical...
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