by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 4, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, Video |
Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as well. Here’s what caught my eye. Object storage – often optimized for large files – continues to be a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team is attending the Usenix File and Storage Technology (FAST) ’17 conference. As usual, there is lots of great content. But only one paper – this year – gets the StorageMojo Best Paper nod. The conference awarded...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 20, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its opening when IBM whiffed on the storage array business. IBM had no...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence (DirectCI) agent uses deep machine learning to identify the files most...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Object storage, Off-Topic |
The fine folks at Scality send out a new year book of photos and – of course – promos. This year caught my attention because, as a fan of modern art, especially those with Cadillacs, they gen’d up a photo of a disk drive displayed like one of the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, Virtualization |
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage systems optimize archiving. Back in April of 2012, IDC produced a...
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