by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2016 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage |
Some interesting numbers out of IDC by way of Chris Mellor of the Reg. First up: the entire enterprise storage market in the latest quarter: Note that HPE is #1. Then the numbers for the external enterprise storage market: HPE is now #3 with $535.7 million. The...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 10, 2016 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
I feel sorry for EMC’s marketers: they have to make 10-20 year old technology seem au courant. It’s an uphill battle, but that’s why they get the big bucks. The latest effort to perfume the pig – hold still, dammit! – is EMC Unity. In a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 23, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
We’ve seen this movie before The value of legacy array intellectual property is collapsing. This isn’t complicated: SSDs have made IOPS – what hard drive arrays were optimizing for the last 25 years – easy and cheap. Think of all the hard-won...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There’s a gathering vendor storm pushing the all-flash datacenter as a solution to datacenter ills, such as high personnel costs and performance bottlenecks. There’s some truth to this, but its application is counter-intuitive. Most of the time, storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 2, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Goodbye, old bottleneck StorageMojo has often asked buyers to focus on latency rather than IOPS thanks to SSDs making IOPS cheap and plentiful. This naturally leads to a focus on I/O stack latency, which multiple vendors are attacking. But what are the implications of...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 22, 2016 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
I did NAB a little differently this year: attended on Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the floor exhibits. Definitely easier, although many of the execs left Wednesday. But that wasn’t a surprise. Here’s what did surprise me: EMC seemed to have...
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