by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Bill’s recent Usenix bio says that “. . . DSSD,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 15, 2013 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo is focussed on new storage technologies, products, companies and markets. And where do new technologies come from? From people researching at the limits of the known. That’s why StorageMojo attends the Usenix File And Storage Technology (FAST)...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender problem. But we also had that problem when we were running...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, Information Management, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Pravda, Chuck Hollis, chats in an interview about XtremIO’s problems. This quote from a Storage Newsletter interview may have some transcription errors, since SN is a French publication, but let’s not split hairs. Read it all to learn more....
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 30, 2012 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo has said little about Nimbus Data, despite several briefings by CEO Thomas Isakovich over the years, due to skepticism about the company. Would you trust a company that lists one person as the management team? But Nimbus has persevered despite...
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