by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo offered its soapbox to any vendors willing to weigh in on the question of whether enterprise arrays should be built from flash SSDs or not. Ed Lee, architect at Tintri, formerly of Data Domain and a Berkeley Ph.D, elected to respond. It is a long piece but...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 15, 2012 | Enterprise |
A reader asks: Do you have any tool to move External Files (nearly 70 TB) from Celerra & Centera to Isilon faster? The StorageMojo take I know EMC made it difficult to leave their Centera system for competitive systems, but making it difficult to leave for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure’s Matt Kixmoeller saw the Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea post and, unsurprisingly, responded. The SSD is Key to Economic Flash Arrays is a good post and I urge interested readers to check it out. Pure has a stellar team with deep experience. Their views...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 9, 2012 | Enterprise, Information Management |
The friendly folks at Panasas are sponsoring Taming the Big Data Beast: Big Data for Design and Discovery at 10am PDT. I’ll present the StorageMojo take on big data. I’d like to hear from you on any issues I should address. Feel free to comment or email me...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
A hardware storage controller is an expensive guarantee that you’re using old technology to handle your most important data. Hardware specs are frozen early in the typical 18-24 month development cycle so by the time you get your “new” controller it...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 19, 2012 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If SSDs are so great, shouldn’t we see the results in TPC-C benchmarks? They are, and we do. But there are some surprises. Cost Looking at the TPC-C top 10 performance results showed the dramatic impact SSDs have had on the cost per thousand transactions (tpmC)....
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