by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In response to yesterday’s StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challenge customer who mentions your blog post.— Brian Carmody...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago Dell EMC announced the demise of the once promising DSSD all flash array. They are planning to incorporate DSSD technology into their other products. As StorageMojo noted 4 years ago, DSSD developed a lot of great technology. But for whatever...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In this morning’s post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flash array market? Short answer: not good Today a Dell PowerEdge Express...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 10, 2016 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
I feel sorry for EMC’s marketers: they have to make 10-20 year old technology seem au courant. It’s an uphill battle, but that’s why they get the big bucks. The latest effort to perfume the pig – hold still, dammit! – is EMC Unity. In a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 2, 2016 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB |
If memory serves – and mine often doesn’t – I asked a panel at the NVM Workshop at UCSD their opinion on using Thunderbolt as a cheap, fast, and flexible interconnect. After all, I thought, academics always need more than they can afford, so these...
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