by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 | Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
If NetApp is going to save itself – see How doomed is NetApp? – it needs to change the way it’s doing business and how it thinks about its customers. Or it can continue as it is and accelerate into oblivion. NetApp’s problem NetApp is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 1, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Scale out storage and Hadoop are a great duo for working with masses of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if it could also be used for more mundane storage tasks, like block storage? Well, it can. Some Silicon Valley engineers have produced a software front end for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 11, 2015 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The crack StorageMojo analyst team has finally named a StorageMojo FAST 15 Best Paper. It was tough to get agreement this year because of the many excellent contenders. Here’s a rundown of the most interesting before a more detailed explication of the winner....
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 13, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
The current turmoil caused by plummeting cloud storage costs, new entrants sporting modern architectures and the forced re-architecting due to flash and upcoming NV memories is a perfect storm for legacy vendors. Some are handling it better than others, but some, like...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, Object storage |
The economics of massive scale-out storage systems has thrown a harsh light on legacy enterprise storage. Expensive, inflexible, under-utilized data silos are not what data intensive enterprises need or – increasingly – can afford. That much is obvious to...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 6, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Formation Data Systems announced a soft launch a few weeks ago with a $24M round – hefty for a software play – and one of the investors is Kumar Malavalli, the smart guy behind Brocade. StorageMojo spoke to FDS CEO Mark Lewis. The what Formation is focused...
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