Off to NAB 2014 – and beyond!
As a reward for good behavior StorageMojo's top analysts will be attending NAB for a couple of days. Today the HP briefing this afternoon and the ShowStoppers official press event this evening. Then it is a very full day Monday - mostly in the lower South Hall -...
A3Cube’s cluster architecture
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube's Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less sense to...
Is software’s free ride over?
It's been a rule of thumb for the last 30+ years that any functionality implemented in hardware will surely migrate to software. But that is starting to change. At the beginning of a new application - say RAID controllers - the volumes are low and the trade-offs...
OpenStack Swift software defined storage
Back in 2006 - before Barack Obama was famous - StorageMojo evaluated the Google File System and concluded Looking at the whole gestalt, even assuming GFS were for sale, it is a niche product and would not be very successful on the open market. As a model for what can...
Enterprise open source storage software adoption & the cloud
Good article today in SearchStorage about enterprise open source storage software (OSSS) adoption. StorageMojo is quoted, but the I found the survey results from the OpenStack Foundation interesting: OpenStack's website lists more than 70 user groups around the world,...
Is Violin Memory done?
Remember this sad story from StorageMojo: They haven’t reported financials for almost 3 quarters. Their stock is trading at about 20% of its peak. They fired their CEO. . . . And NetApp was trying to strangle [them] (see NetApp filers for $1/GB?) in its crib. Are...
Cloud and the current infrastructure brawl
Thoughts about cloud. The economic basis is two-fold: economies of massive scale; and, commodity parts. Scale The corollary to massive scale is monoculture. Monocultures have their advantages - look at America's corn-growing prowess - but their economic advantages...
FAST ’14: the big picture
StorageMojo isn't done reviewing papers, but this post is about the bigger picture that emerged from the papers and presentations. Perhaps this is pattern-finding gone mad - intuition - but hey! - perhaps not. Here are the bones of trends observed from the research...
StorageMojo’s Best Papers of FAST ’14
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 few for...
Where does ReRAM fit?
Over on ZDnet this morning I wrote about a FAST '14 paper modeling how a PCM SSD could be used in a hybrid - PCM SSD, flash SSD, HDD - storage system. For an academic research paper, this one is refreshingly focussed on business case enabled by technology. Any new...
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