by Robin Harris | Monday, August 6, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Seattle-based F5 networks announced today their plan to acquire Massachusetts-based Acopia Networks. I think it is an interesting tie-up. Is storage just another network service? A trick question. Of course storage is, and of course, is isn’t. Networks...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 4, 2007 | Clusters, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Venturing forth from the Shire I went back to Silicon Valley last week to see if I could still deal with more than three people in a room. Living in a remote mountain valley and working at home, I don’t get out much. Visited Cisco and some clients. A good trip....
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 16, 2007 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Virtualization is the answer. Now, what was the question? The drumbeat for virtualization as the answer for the storage world’s ills continues unabated. Yet I wonder if we are virtualizing the right things and, if we are, doing it in the right way. I got into...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 15, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn’t have blocks? No more block management. We’d simply...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A shot across the bow HP’s acquisition of Polyserve is a ~$250 million (my SWAG, we’ll have to see what, if anything, gets reported on the 10K) bet on the future of storage. And I think it is a good one. HP needed to do something. Their external storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 26, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
As promised in the Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi, EMC, IBM, NetApp, HP and Sun, StorageMojo is giving this space to NetApp to respond to Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience. Props to NetApp for being quick off the mark...
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