by Robin Harris | Friday, May 20, 2016 | Marketing, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
While you weren’t looking Western Digital stopped being a hard drive company, morphing into a storage company. Such transitions are nothing new for a company that started life making calculator chips in the 1970s, morphed into SCSI, ATA and graphics in the 80s,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 2, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Goodbye, old bottleneck StorageMojo has often asked buyers to focus on latency rather than IOPS thanks to SSDs making IOPS cheap and plentiful. This naturally leads to a focus on I/O stack latency, which multiple vendors are attacking. But what are the implications of...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Clusters, Information Management, Object storage |
Qumulo is crossing the chasm: they have 50 paying customers with over 40PB in production. Real production, not POCs. That includes clusters from 4 nodes to more than 20 nodes with over 4PB at a large telco. They practice agile development with 24 software releases in...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Here’s a good question: why are cloud vendors able to innovate so much faster than legacy vendors? AWS brags about the hundreds of new features and services they implement every year – and their accelerating pace. But here’s a better question: why...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 4, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, Object storage |
IDC’s Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Market for Q3 2015 had some interesting results. The thumbnail is the title of this post. But there are a couple more details. ODM vendors – who sell direct to the hyperscale data center customers – had the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Infinite io’s Network Storage Controller (NSC) is a rarity in enterprise storage: an original and unique device. It turns your file storage network into a software defined resource. But it’s not a file server, a caching controller or an intelligent front...
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