by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Chuck Hollis blogged about The Vendor Beating a couple of months ago. The unspoken question in the post is “how do we understand what customers are telling us?” He writes As an employee of a large IT vendor, I’ve been at the receiving end...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Reader Kyle asks a good question: SANs are advertised up the wazoo as having lots of internal redundancy such as redundant power, redundant controllers, etc. I’ve spent enough time with redundancy to know that having two pieces of hardware often doesn’t...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 12, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost as if VMware were owned by a storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 29, 2011 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure Storage, a well-funded ($55M) valley startup, came out of hiding last week with a startling claim: enterprise flash that is cheaper1,2,3 than disk. 1Cheaper after compressing and deduping the data. 2Cheaper after using almost all the flash capacity, which you...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise |
Quantum announced a new deduplication appliance series – the DXi 6701 and 6702 – that claims exceptional scalability. Why? Because it uses technology from Quantum’s StorNext cluster file system. Scale out Quantum says the units grow from 8 to 80TB of...
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