Room at the top

by | Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 17 comments

Kaminario has introduced the world’s fastest SAN storage, the K2. If time is money, this is for you. DRAM Kaminario’s K2 is fast because DRAM, not disk, is the primary storage. DRAM’s low latency, high bandwidth and durability breaks the tight link...

Shock, vibe and awe

by | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech | 8 comments

Shouting at a disk drive will cause it to stop. But what about the constant nagging they get in busy data centers? That’s a bigger problem. Bad, bad, bad vibrations The use of consumer-grade SATA drives in the enterprise raises the concern. A 2005 study,...

StorageMojo @EMC World

by | Wednesday, May 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing | 1 comment

Leaving Sunday for beautiful downtown Boston. Really: much nicer since they finished the Big Dig. Hoping to learn more about Atmos. Did you know it is available as an online service? And I want to talk to some of the RSA researchers working on storage, but I’m...

Cisco’s UCS limited scale

by | Friday, April 30, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise | 23 comments

Should a Unified Computing System be able to scale to meet growing application needs? Of course, but the network must scale with it. The problem: Cisco’s enterprise architecture doesn’t scale. And that isn’t only the StorageMojo take. Gartner VP Joe...

Violin tunes up

by | Monday, April 5, 2010 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 1 comment

Spoke to Don Basile and Matt Barletta of Violin Memory Friday. I’ve been talking to Violin for the last couple of years, and while I liked the technology was skeptical of their ability to commercialize it. That was then. Today Violin announced a multi-million...