by Robin Harris | Friday, December 13, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech |
WD is sampling SMR – Shingled Magnetic Recording – disk drives to several cloud vendors including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Seagate announced sales of a million SMR drives in September. HGST likely has a similar program under way. SMR in a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, May 11, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Digital coinage can’t do everything a physical coin can do, but that’s not stopping people from signing up – or going to conferences. There’s one in Silicon Valley next week and the elite StorageMojo analyst crew will be there in force....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Bill’s recent Usenix bio says that “. . . DSSD,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 15, 2013 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo is focussed on new storage technologies, products, companies and markets. And where do new technologies come from? From people researching at the limits of the known. That’s why StorageMojo attends the Usenix File And Storage Technology (FAST)...
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