by Robin Harris | Friday, August 15, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google and Amazon have armies of PhDs to design, manage and diagnose their scale-out systems. Few small to medium sized businesses do – nor should they – but they should still have the advantages of scale-out infrastructure. Imagine infrastructure that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 18, 2013 | Backup, Enterprise, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
For reasons that elude me I accepted Asigra’s invitation to attend their Toronto Partner Summit last week. I’m glad I did. After all, I hate backup. Not because I like losing data, but because it reminds me how flaky digital storage is. Asigra is the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
BlueArc and Drobo founder Geoff Barrall has a new perch: Gridstore, one of the companies I’ve been following for almost 3 years. Geoff is the new executive chairman. Formal announcement is expected this week. Gridstore’s concept is a low-cost scale-out NAS...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 8, 2011 | Backup, SOHO/SMB, Video |
Several readers have written in lately with roughly the same question: what’s the best way to build cheap home bulk storage? Here’s how 1 writer put it: I was hoping you could provide me with some advice. I have so many external drives that I have to swap....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB, Video |
I sat down with Nimble Storage co-founder and VP of engineering Varun Mehta to discuss their architecture – and shoot some video. Varun has been part of several Valley success stories – NetApp, Sun, Data Domain – and has a first hand perspective on...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I was surprised by the number of questions at last week’s webinar – many more than we could get to – so I’m answering a few here. Performance Q: Can Robin talk about performance and how does flash help solve I/O bottleneck? NAND flash is very...
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