by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 | Enterprise, Information Management, Management, SAN, FC |
On the 11th StorageMojo asked what workloads are ideal for enterprise arrays on a price/performance basis – and got some good answers. In all cases commenters are expressing their personal opinions and not the official policy of any company they may work for....
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management |
Part of a continuing series on competing with the cloud What is needed to verify cloud service level agreements? Good question. Authors Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg, Gregory Chockler, IBM Research UK, Nuno Santos,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Management, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Or, at least, your Violin arrays. A few weeks ago Violin Memory introduced their Symphony management app. They asked me to put together a brief intro video. As work progressed a larger question presented itselt: how can enterprise IT compete with low-cost competitors...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 22, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In response to the post on Avere’s architecture for fronting backend NAS filers – where StorageMojo said that no front-end to NAS boxes has succeeded – alert reader Jacob Marley asked “What about F5′s ARX to stitch/balance storage across...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
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