by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence (DirectCI) agent uses deep machine learning to identify the files most...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 22, 2016 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, Virtualization |
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage systems optimize archiving. Back in April of 2012, IDC produced a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
Spent the day on the show floor at Vmworld 2016 in sunny Las Vegas. Saw some interesting things. Panzuraa now offers byte-range locking on their global collaboration platform. They’ve been having great success in the Autodesk Revit market. M&E seems like a...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 26, 2016 | Virtualization |
The StorageMojo crack analyst team is busy polishing their cowboy boots and ironing their jeans to get respectable (why now?) for next week’s VMworld in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is a short – by Western standards – 4 to 5 hour drive from the high pastures...
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