by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Clusters, Information Management, Object storage |
Qumulo is crossing the chasm: they have 50 paying customers with over 40PB in production. Real production, not POCs. That includes clusters from 4 nodes to more than 20 nodes with over 4PB at a large telco. They practice agile development with 24 software releases in...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 5, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
What is Software Defined Memory? A converged memory and storage architecture that enables applications to access storage as if it was memory and memory as if it was storage Unlike most of the software defined x menagerie, SDM isn’t simply another layer that...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 11, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Information Management, Off-Topic |
Persistent digital storage is an absolute requirement for a persisting digital civilization – and I remain concerned that with the exception of M-disc we don’t have digital media with a 500 year life. But I also take a broader view of storage, including...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
If, like me, you’re interested in AI and deep learning, you’ll like this. Neural networks are all the rage in AI, but there is a newer technology – Gödel machines – that is now a standard part of the AI toolset. What is a Gödel machine? From...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 11, 2015 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The crack StorageMojo analyst team has finally named a StorageMojo FAST 15 Best Paper. It was tough to get agreement this year because of the many excellent contenders. Here’s a rundown of the most interesting before a more detailed explication of the winner....
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, Object storage |
The economics of massive scale-out storage systems has thrown a harsh light on legacy enterprise storage. Expensive, inflexible, under-utilized data silos are not what data intensive enterprises need or – increasingly – can afford. That much is obvious to...
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