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 | Monday, August 12, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Last year StorageMojo interviewed Violin Memory CEO Don Basile. He noted that as flash features sizes shrank, NAND would get slower as well as reducing endurance. Intellectually that is correct, but it isn’t an easy concept. Flash stores a physical thing –...
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 | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they’ve never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 3, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
This came in this morning’s email from a reader I’ll call Perplexed. How would you advise Perplexed? I’m looking at a new iSCSI storage system for two sites with ~ 20 servers each – 10TB each should do it. Picture two fairly usual...
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