by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
You have a data center full of Windows and Linux servers running your key applications. How do you migrate them to the cloud; or, at the very least, enable cloud-based disaster recovery? That’s the question CloudVelox is trying to answer. Their software enables...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
From their earliest days, people have reported that SSDs were not providing the performance they expected. As SSDs age, for instance, they get slower. But how much slower? And why? A common use of SSDs is for servers hosting virtual machines. The aggregated VMs create...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 5, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, Virtualization |
Open vStorage is a new virtual storage system coming out of stealth mode. Designed to enable virtual machines to run directly from object storage, it is a layer between the hypervisor and the object store with the goal of turning object storage – as well as...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 14, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work presented at FAST that it seems unfair to pick just a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 20, 2013 | Information Management, Virtualization |
The convoluted path of OS X ZFS is taking another turn. Greenbytes, who bought Zevo from Tens Complement, will be transitioning the Mac ZFS product – Zevo – out of their company sometime this summer. Where? That’s the question. Can Zevo be part of a...
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...
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