by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In this morning’s post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flash array market? Short answer: not good Today a Dell PowerEdge Express...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 20, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its opening when IBM whiffed on the storage array business. IBM had no...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team will be attending the 8th Non-volatile Memory Workshop. Last year’s event attracted 230 participants. This isn’t the Flash Memory Summit, which focuses on flash memory as a storage technology and its commercial...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 6, 2017 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Violin Memory, one of the early entrants with an all-flash array, filed for bankruptcy last month. The company continues to operate under Chapter 11, but this is a sad outcome for a pioneer. So much for first mover advantage When I first met with Violin, the original...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Nantero raised a $21 million round from investors. The company is one of StorageMojo’s favorite NVRAM vendors, because carbon nanotubes. I also like the fact that their process can use existing fabs, even fully depreciated ones, to build high-density vertical...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Ten years ago in Enterprise IT: the elephant’s graveyard I wrote about the upmarket trap: Engineering and marketing find it easy to justify fun new technology since a 10% goodness increase on a $500,000 machine is worth $50,000, while on a $1,000 machine it is...
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