by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo offered its soapbox to any vendors willing to weigh in on the question of whether enterprise arrays should be built from flash SSDs or not. Ed Lee, architect at Tintri, formerly of Data Domain and a Berkeley Ph.D, elected to respond. It is a long piece but...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Another StorageMojo Best paper, The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, presented at this year’s FAST ’12 conference, quantifies flash’s declining reliability, endurance, and performance as density increases. Researchers Laura M. Grupp and Steven...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
A hardware storage controller is an expensive guarantee that you’re using old technology to handle your most important data. Hardware specs are frozen early in the typical 18-24 month development cycle so by the time you get your “new” controller it...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 27, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
FAST – File and Storage Technology – is a must-see conference for StorageMojo, and I’ll be reviewing several Best Papers from FAST ’12 . While most emerging technology is developed in private company labs, FAST is where much of the first...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
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