by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
Deduplication has been accepted as an enterprise-class compression technology. Is it time for data compression to be a standard feature of primary storage? I’ve been doing some work for Nimble Storage a cool Valley startup. Talking to co-founder Varun Mehta, he...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Enterprise, Management, Security & Public Policy |
Wild. Cisco, with the aid of pliable government officials – do corporations know any other kind? – had a guy arrested and held in jail for 28 days in Vancouver, BC. He was arrested as he testified at a special hearing for the case! Cuff ’em, Danno...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forget the flame wars over moving window versus fixed block de-duplication. A recent paper, A Study of Practical Deduplication (pdf) from William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research and Dutch T. Meyer of the University of British Columbia found that whole file...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 14, 2011 | Enterprise, Marketing |
John Chamber’s epiphany – driven by a stock price swoon – that Cisco should stick to its knitting has another logical conclusion: dump the benighted Universal Computing System. But is the damage already so bad that Cisco is damned if it does and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 24, 2011 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Does NetApp’s purchase of LSI’s storage business – not known as Engenio – portend a fundamental change in NetApp’s business model? No and yes. Here’s why. The story NetApp has often contrasted their single focus on Data ONTAP with...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It isn’t about the capacity. It’s the performance. I few weeks ago I asked StorageMojo readers to help out Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm. They did, and Jim got some surprising results. Now that I have finished interviewing...
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