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Flash risks, rewards and “usable capacity”

by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 9 comments

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...

Best workload for enterprise arrays?

by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 | Enterprise, Information Management, Management, SAN, FC | 1 comment

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....

Verifying cloud services

by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management | 1 comment

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,...

Manage your data center from a tablet

by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Management, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video | 2 comments

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...

Is F5’s ARX file virtualization a success?

by Robin Harris | Monday, April 22, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 16 comments

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...

Fronting NAS for fun and profit

by Robin Harris | Friday, April 19, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 2 comments

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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