by Robin Harris | Saturday, January 17, 2009 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Truism: flash is not the same as disk. So why don’t we take advantage of that – rather than hiding it? Partly is it is the human SOP: first build the old thing out of the new stuff. Not to mention the commercial allure of hundreds of millions of SATA...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I got a note from David Flynn, co-founder and CTO of Fusion-io (disclosure: I’ve done work for them) in response to The new storage pyramid. He makes several points about the nature of the array model that I wish I’d made. Well worth the read. David...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
OK, it is still a pyramid Predictions of the storage array’s death struck some commenters as premature. Commenters raised a host of issues: Cost. Low-end storage arrays are cheaper than clusters. Complexity. The complexity of clustered hardware – all those...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Yes, Virginia, the storage industry will survive the crisis Economists and business leaders generally agree that the current, as yet unofficial, recession will be the worst we have seen since the Great Depression. The credit bubble has popped and we are facing global...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
EMC has announced Hulk/Maui, now known as Atmos. I’m flying to Boston today and don’t have access to EMC’s announcement documents. But I have something better: the papers that provide the theoretical underpinning for Atmos. They provide an in-depth...
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