by Robin Harris | Monday, October 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Can object storage ever be as fast as block storage? It turns out the answer is yes. And we already know how to do it. I was speaking to the CTO of ClearSky Data, Laz Vekiarides, about their block storage system for enterprise applications. They offer . . . a Global...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, Object storage |
Nutanix – NTNX – has started off with a bang: opening at $16 a share and quickly rising to almost $30. It’s trading at $36 as I write. Now for the hard part Everyone is no doubt counting how much they’ve made on that spectacular beginning. But...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
Spent the day on the show floor at Vmworld 2016 in sunny Las Vegas. Saw some interesting things. Panzuraa now offers byte-range locking on their global collaboration platform. They’ve been having great success in the Autodesk Revit market. M&E seems like a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Object storage |
In response to Building fast erasure coded storage, alert readers Petros Koutoupis and Ian F. Adams noted that advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) isn’t typically CPU limited. The real problem is network bandwidth. It turns out that the same team that...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which got me thinking about the next decade. Think of all the changes we’ve seen in the last 10 years: Cloud storage and computing that put a price on IT’s head Scale out object storage. Flash. Millions...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2016 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage |
Some interesting numbers out of IDC by way of Chris Mellor of the Reg. First up: the entire enterprise storage market in the latest quarter: Note that HPE is #1. Then the numbers for the external enterprise storage market: HPE is now #3 with $535.7 million. The...
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