by Robin Harris | Monday, May 5, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The drama with XtremIO’s delays only whetted EMC’s appetite for more drama. Or the hot breath of competition and declining VMAX sales. Let’s go with the latter. StorageMojo has been following DSSD for some time. The core of the Sun ZFS team, Jeff...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 13, 2014 | Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Remember this sad story from StorageMojo: They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO. . . . And NetApp was trying to strangle [them] (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC |
Thoughts about cloud. The economic basis is two-fold: economies of massive scale; and, commodity parts. Scale The corollary to massive scale is monoculture. Monocultures have their advantages – look at America’s corn-growing prowess – but their...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 | Enterprise, Information Management, Management, SAN, FC |
On the 11th StorageMojo asked what workloads are ideal for enterprise arrays on a price/performance basis – and got some good answers. In all cases commenters are expressing their personal opinions and not the official policy of any company they may work for....
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 8, 2013 | Enterprise, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s XtremIO product is launching next week on November 14. This is the beginning of the end for EMC’s Symmetrix line and the toughest product transition they’ve ever attempted. You may recall last year when StorageMojo decrypted the content of a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
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