HP Discover 2013: Las Vegas
Heading off to the bright lights of Las Vegas today to attend HP Discover. Looking forward to an in-depth briefing on the 3PAR architecture in its current form. As usual, it's always a bit of a shock to leave the solitude of northern Arizona ranch lands for a busy...
Architecting & integrating flash into enterprise storage
Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they've never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops working...
Cloud money: flip a Bitcoin
Digital coinage can't do everything a physical coin can do, but that's not stopping people from signing up - or going to conferences. There's one in Silicon Valley next week and the elite StorageMojo analyst crew will be there in force. Digital currency as a store...
EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2
Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part "tomorrow" the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage line. While the...
EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1
EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world's largest data storage company is getting larger. Why? IBM and the 7 dwarves Back when mainframes ruled the earth, IBM faced a hardy band of competitors that had their own processor architectures...
Is F5’s ARX file virtualization a success?
In response to the post on Avere's architecture for fronting backend NAS filers - where StorageMojo said that no front-end to NAS boxes has succeeded - alert reader Jacob Marley asked "What about F5′s ARX to stitch/balance storage across multiple filers?" Good...
Fronting NAS for fun and profit
The traditional model of NAS filers is handy if you only have a few. But once you get to 8 or 10 NAs filers your life gets complicated. Your oldest data is on the oldest filer and your active data is on the newest. If that new filer bottlenecks your entire system...
StorageMojo @NAB 2013 next week
It's spring, and a young man's fancy turns to Las Vegas and the National Association of Broadcasters annual price-is-no-object tech toy fair. Shaking off a long winter's chills the StorageMojo analyst army is getting ready to ride off into the hills to see the bright...
Build a 3PB storage solution
Choice is a great thing, unless there's too much of it. And choice is what we have a lot of in today's data storage market. A longtime StorageMojo reader has an interesting problem: architect a 3PB data storage facility. Can you help? Here's what he wrote to...
Dear StorageMojo: should I go all SSD?
This came in this morning's email from a reader I'll call Perplexed. How would you advise Perplexed? I'm looking at a new iSCSI storage system for two sites with ~ 20 servers each - 10TB each should do it. Picture two fairly usual manufacturing/mining sites, 200-500...
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