by Robin Harris | Friday, February 14, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work presented at FAST that it seems unfair to pick just a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over on ZDnet this morning I wrote about a FAST ’14 paper modeling how a PCM SSD could be used in a hybrid – PCM SSD, flash SSD, HDD – storage system. For an academic research paper, this one is refreshingly focussed on business case enabled by...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 7, 2014 | Future Tech |
Two words: plasmonics; metamaterials. These could reshape storage over the next 20 years. What are they? Plasmons, specifically surface plasmon waves, are generated when light interacts with a metal. The free electrons in the metal support a wave of charge density...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 3, 2014 | Future Tech |
Introducing an irregular series on speculative storage technologies. StorageMojo likes emerging technologies, but these are still gestating and may never emerge. Magnetic holography is first. Optical holography has gotten lots of funding over the years – most...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 30, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Seagate’s Kinetic Vision moves closer to reality. Seagate is continuing their Kinetic Open Storage program with a couple of tools announced and demo’d at the Open Compute conference in San Jose today. I’m not there, but I’m glad to see the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 | Future Tech |
The elite analyst team here at StorageMojo is excited: we’re going to the Usenix FAST – File And Storage Technology – conference next month, assuming no blizzards here in the Arizona mountains. But with the current drought, things are looking good!...
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