by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growing? IDC definitions IDC defines a disk storage system broadly,...
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 1, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Choice is a great thing, unless there’s too much of it. And choice is what we have a lot of in today’s data storage market. A longtime StorageMojo reader has an interesting problem: architect a 3PB data storage facility. Can you help? Here’s what he...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This came in this morning’s email from a reader I’ll call Perplexed. How would you advise Perplexed? I’m looking at a new iSCSI storage system for two sites with ~ 20 servers each – 10TB each should do it. Picture two fairly usual...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Our digital civilization requires data integrity and long-term preservation, and neither is assured by our current storage infrastructure. But progress continues. Latest case in point: Amplidata. This 4 year old company, based in Belgium with a growing US footprint,...
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