by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Management, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Or, at least, your Violin arrays. A few weeks ago Violin Memory introduced their Symphony management app. They asked me to put together a brief intro video. As work progressed a larger question presented itselt: how can enterprise IT compete with low-cost competitors...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IDC says HP is selling 17% less storage last quarter than a year ago. Was that because the high-end EVA and XP businesses were contracting faster than the new 3PAR converged storage business was growing? IDC definitions IDC defines a disk storage system broadly,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 1, 2013 | Architecture, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
Choice is a great thing, unless there’s too much of it. And choice is what we have a lot of in today’s data storage market. A longtime StorageMojo reader has an interesting problem: architect a 3PB data storage facility. Can you help? Here’s what he...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Disk, SAN, FC |
Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO – at Coraid, Kevin Brown – has...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Reader Kyle asks a good question: SANs are advertised up the wazoo as having lots of internal redundancy such as redundant power, redundant controllers, etc. I’ve spent enough time with redundancy to know that having two pieces of hardware often doesn’t...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
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