by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It was obvious in 2006 that Google’s clean-sheet GFS would revolutionize massive storage. The problem has been taking Google’s concepts and scaling them down to less than warehouse scale. A number of companies have tried – Nutanix is probably the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 25, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Anyone looking at how flash SSDs have revolutionized power constrained mobile computing could be forgiven for thinking that all SSDs are power-efficient. But they’re not. In a recent Usenix HotStorage ’14 paper Power, Energy and Thermal Considerations in...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Unpacking the data services vs performance metric debate. Why we should stop the IOPS wars and focus on latency. IOPS is not that important for most data centers today because flash arrays are so much faster than the storage they replace. That’s why the first...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 20, 2014 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The entire StorageMojo analyst team will be saddling up and leaving the bone-dry high desert of Arizona to see the fleshpots of Santa Clara for the 2014 Flash Memory Summit. StorageMojo’s Chief Analyst will be chairing Session U-2: Annual Update on Enterprise...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 14, 2014 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note, a version of this post appeared this morning on ZDnet. Given that roughly a billion battery-powered computers are sold each year, you’d think that the engineers would be busy rearchitecting the storage stack to take advantage of built-in – and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Yesterday’s post on IOPS vs latency provoked some controversy on Twitter. Kappy, CTO of a midwestern IT consultancy, asserted @storagemojo Most AFA users don’t even care about latency. Sure there are latency sensitive apps, but data services are more...
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