by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 9, 2013 | Future Tech |
The StorageMojo team has been hankering to see some bright lights and – just maybe – avoid some more mountain snow and cold. So its off to the fleshpots of Silicon Valley to see what’s been cooked up at the File And Storage Technology ’13. If...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 18, 2013 | Backup, Future Tech, Information Management |
No CES for me this year, but did attend Storage Visions 2013. Some cool stuff there. Panasonic’s Blu-ray RAID archive robot Panasonic has a Blu-ray-based storage system that looks interesting. Imagine 12 Blu-ray discs in the striped RAID configuration. The RAID...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 23, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Interesting companies at this year’s Flash Memory Summit, but the winner of the StorageMojo BuzzGen award is Skyera. That there’s little detail on their system may have helped: attendees get to fantasize about the putative magic under the covers. Founded...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 10, 2012 | Future Tech |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team is hitting the road: Flash Memory Summit; Intel Developer Forum; and SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference. Flash Memory Summit I’ll be chairing a tutorial at the Flash Memory Summit on Thursday morning, August 23rd....
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 23, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren’t going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives to RAID that are lower cost. But you could argue that the...
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