Seagate’s Kinetic open storage vision
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today's scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy infrastructure...
Ideal workload for enterprise arrays?
Some commenters defending traditional storage have stated that flash arrays are not ideal for every workload. I couldn't agree more. But that begs the real question: what are the high-cost, big iron arrays like the Symm good for? Functional obsolescence If we look at...
XtremLY late XtremIO launch next week
EMC's XtremIO product is launching next week on November 14. This is the beginning of the end for EMC's Symmetrix line and the toughest product transition they've ever attempted. You may recall last year when StorageMojo decrypted the content of a Storage Newsletter...
Amazon: #2 storage company in 3 years
I've been analyzing Amazon's 10Q and 10K filings. While Amazon does not break out AWS revenues - they're part of the "other" segment - with a few judicious assumptions, a look at revenue growth, investments, and the deltas between North American and International...
Extending block storage to cloud scale
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn't been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That's why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs and NAS...
The Nirvanix failure
Sad to see them fail. But it was never going to be easy to maintain a highly available cloud at much lower scale than Amazon or Microsoft while also paying account teams to work closely with customers to configure the right solution. In short, all of the costs of an...
Are file and object stores in the same segment?
IDC has recently been promoting the idea of file and object based storage as a segment. While market segmentation is more art than science, putting file and object based storage in the same segment obscures the true shape of the storage industry. Why this matters Done...
Verifying cloud services
Part of a continuing series on competing with the cloud What is needed to verify cloud service level agreements? Good question. Authors Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg, Gregory Chockler, IBM Research UK, Nuno...
How IT can compete with the cloud
Enterprise IT wore out its welcome with the glass-house priesthood schtick about 30 years ago. But they were the only game in town, so the rest of the company had to suck it up. But no more. Amazon Web Services - and many other cloud services such as the premium...
Manage your data center from a tablet
Or, at least, your Violin arrays. A few weeks ago Violin Memory introduced their Symphony management app. They asked me to put together a brief intro video. As work progressed a larger question presented itselt: how can enterprise IT compete with low-cost competitors...
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