by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at Network Computing my friend Howard Marks took StorageMojo to task for questioning using commodity SSDs in solid state storage arrays. In his response he made several points about latency, bandwidth, cost and reliability. Latency [Robin] says that SAS/SATA...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Maximizing value for time spent is a difficult calculus. Especially when it the goal is perspective rather than information. Efficient use of your time will be why the Solid State Storage Symposium works. Starting at 10am at the Doubletree San Jose Airport and going...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Actually, StorageMojo is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. Umesh Maheshwari of Nimble Storage wrote a detailed and thoughtful response to the StorageMojo post Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea? The StorageMojo take Umesh makes good points, but perhaps due to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
More is coming on SSDs RSN, but in the meantime there is the following piece from Virsto’s Eric Burgener on HA considerations for SSDs. Virsto is a software company focused on making VIRtual STOrage for VMware and HyperV much more functional than the physical...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo offered its soapbox to any vendors willing to weigh in on the question of whether enterprise arrays should be built from flash SSDs or not. Ed Lee, architect at Tintri, formerly of Data Domain and a Berkeley Ph.D, elected to respond. It is a long piece but...
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