by Robin Harris | Friday, February 14, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work presented at FAST that it seems unfair to pick just a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 13, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over on ZDnet this morning I wrote about a FAST ’14 paper modeling how a PCM SSD could be used in a hybrid – PCM SSD, flash SSD, HDD – storage system. For an academic research paper, this one is refreshingly focussed on business case enabled by...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 9, 2013 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If a well-funded startup came to you and asked you to bet your business on a brand-new architecture and product, what would you say? “I’ll wait” is a likely answer. So why is it any different when that start up product comes from EMC? You could argue...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 11, 2013 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Some commenters defending traditional storage have stated that flash arrays are not ideal for every workload. I couldn’t agree more. But that begs the real question: what are the high-cost, big iron arrays like the Symm good for? Functional obsolescence If we...
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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