by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
DSSD, the Valley startup acquired by EMC last year (see EMC goes all in with DSSD) is continuing to hire at an accelerating rate. Informed sources put the current DSSD team at 160 heads with plans to grow it to 800 over the next year. This is a program in a hurry....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
StorageMojo has been writing about latency and flash arrays for years (see The SSD write cliff in real life), with a focus on data from the TPC-C and SPC-1 benchmarks. The folks at Violin Memory asked me to create a Video White Paper to discuss the problem in a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago StorageMojo learned that a VMAX 20k could support up to 2400 3TB drives, it can only address ≈2PB. Where did the remaining 5 petabytes go? Some theories were advanced in the comments, and I spoke to other people about the mystery. No one would...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Skyera acquisition could signal a sea change in the relationship between storage device and system makers. It is overdue. Traditionally, device makers avoided competing with their customers. This is what it made Seagate’s acquisition of Xiotech (now X-IO...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forbes contributor and analyst Peter Cohan writes on seemingly conflicting stories coming from Pure and EMC. Let’s unpack the dueling narratives. Does Pure win 70% vs EMC or does EMC win 95% vs Pure? The metrics: Both parties seem to agree that they meet up very...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 3, 2014 | IoT, Mobile, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Adesto Technologies is a company you probably haven’t heard of. I’m here to fix that, thanks to a discussion I had today with their CEO, semiconductor veteran Narbeh Derhacobian. Adesto is announcing a whiz-bang new product next week, but you need to know...
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