by Robin Harris | Monday, November 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Zigging when others are zagging can be smart. Dell buying EMC to create a large computer company could be genius – or the last hurrah of a failing business model. Dell’s perspective is simple: ≈50% of Dell’s revenue comes from PCs, a rapidly...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Marketing |
EMC’s Joe Tucci has long been the smartest CEO in storage. While not every one of his bets has paid off, enough have done well, while the VMware $625M buy was a monster smash. Since VMware accounts for some 70% of EMC’s market cap, it is really the only...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Infinite io’s Network Storage Controller (NSC) is a rarity in enterprise storage: an original and unique device. It turns your file storage network into a software defined resource. But it’s not a file server, a caching controller or an intelligent front...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 28, 2015 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Maybe software will eat the world, but sometimes the physical world gives software indigestion. That fact was evident at the Flash Memory Summit this month. As mentioned in Flash slaying the latency dragon? several companies were showing remote storage accesses...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 30, 2015 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Post sponsored by Infinidat Flash has revolutionized storage, but the industry has lost sight of the customer problem: optimizing storage for availability, performance, footprint, power and cost. Industry analysts aren’t helping. Let’s forget about flash...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 29, 2015 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Storage is at a tipping point: much of the existing investment in the software stack will be obsolete within two years. This will be the biggest change in storage since the invention of the disk drive by IBM in 1956. This is not to deprecate the other seismic forces...
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