by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The power of the big IaaS players – Amazon, Google, Facebook, Azure (AGFA) – constitutes a shadow IT industry. It is a shadow because its operations are outside the transparency we take for granted with legacy IT vendors like IBM, HP, Cisco and Oracle....
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 26, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Disk drives and flash are already pushing the limits of nanotechnology to increase density. But what if we went with encoding data directly into molecules? Does a petabyte per cc sound interesting? In Advances in Macromolecular Data Storage, Masud Mansuripur, a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SAN, FC |
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don’t have an installed base – and a cash cow – to protect, you can go...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years – well more than a decade in Internet time. I don’t look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 4, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Remember Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas – but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei’s UDS – Universal Distributed Storage – system launched two years ago with a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 30, 2014 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Crossbar, the resistance RAM (RRAM) startup, opened the kimono a little wider today with the announcement of their “1TnR” architecture, which they have implemented on pre-production test chips. Unpacking 1TnR: 1 Transistor drives n number of RRAM cells....
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