by Robin Harris | Monday, January 19, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Cloud storage seems to have legs, so after the usual hesitation about leaving home (see picture above) I decided to attend the SNIA cloud storage summit in sunny San Jose this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Hmm-m: cloud, summit. . . . images of John Krakauer’s...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
He was pushed Seagate’s Bill Watkins, CEO since 2004, apparently lost the confidence of the Seagate board and was replaced by former CEO and current Chairman Stephen Luczo. Why? Not Watkins’ sometimes bizarre public statements: that would’ve gotten...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 8, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Everyone in the data storage industry knows about the gap between I/Os per second of disk drives and processor I/O requirements. But there is a similar problem facing DRAM support of many-core chips. Named “the memory wall” by William Wulf and Sally McKee...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I got a note from David Flynn, co-founder and CTO of Fusion-io (disclosure: I’ve done work for them) in response to The new storage pyramid. He makes several points about the nature of the array model that I wish I’d made. Well worth the read. David...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
OK, it is still a pyramid Predictions of the storage array’s death struck some commenters as premature. Commenters raised a host of issues: Cost. Low-end storage arrays are cheaper than clusters. Complexity. The complexity of clustered hardware – all those...
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