by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 | Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
If NetApp is going to save itself – see How doomed is NetApp? – it needs to change the way it’s doing business and how it thinks about its customers. Or it can continue as it is and accelerate into oblivion. NetApp’s problem NetApp is...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
From their earliest days, people have reported that SSDs were not providing the performance they expected. As SSDs age, for instance, they get slower. But how much slower? And why? A common use of SSDs is for servers hosting virtual machines. The aggregated VMs create...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Scale out storage and Hadoop are a great duo for working with masses of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could also be used for more mundane storage tasks, like block storage? Well, it can. Some Silicon Valley engineers have produced a software front end for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 11, 2015 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The crack StorageMojo analyst team has finally named a StorageMojo FAST 15 Best Paper. It was tough to get agreement this year because of the many excellent contenders. Here’s a rundown of the most interesting before a more detailed explication of the winner....
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 27, 2015 | Enterprise |
As reported in a Seeking Alpha quarterly call transcript, EMC’s storage unit had a $75 million shortfall in Q1. CEO Joe Tucci said . . . we were disappointed that we fell a bit short of our Q1 revenue plan, approximately $75 million short. This $75 million...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 13, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
The current turmoil caused by plummeting cloud storage costs, new entrants sporting modern architectures and the forced re-architecting due to flash and upcoming NV memories is a perfect storm for legacy vendors. Some are handling it better than others, but some, like...
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