by Robin Harris | Friday, September 12, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Object storage |
Erasure coded (EC) storage has achieved remarkable gains over current RAID arrays in fault-tolerance and storage efficiency, but the knock against it is performance. Sure, it’s highly available and cheap, but it’s slo-o-w. Advanced erasure codes –...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage |
Amplidata announced this morning that Western Digital Capital has made a $10m investment. HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions to address the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SAN, FC |
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don’t have an installed base – and a cash cow – to protect, you can go...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 4, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, Object storage |
Remember Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision? Turns out there is a shipping product embodying the same ideas – but not from Seagate. Surprised? Huawei’s UDS – Universal Distributed Storage – system launched two years ago with a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, Object storage |
An architect and regular StorageMojo reader faces a perplexing problem: should he move his organization’s archive from tape to object storage? The first question is, of course, is it technically feasible? The economics come next. Here’s his problem...
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