Infinidat sweetens All Flash Array Challenge
In response to yesterday's StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challenge customer who mentions your blog post.— Brian Carmody (@initzero)...
Infinidat’s sweet AFA challenge
StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with an innovative marketing wrinkle. That's what Infinidat has done with...
Hike blogging: Devils Creek Road
Taking a vacation from the usual slog in NoAZ. I'm some 60 miles north of Seattle, working on my rain tan. The weatherman claims we'll break 70 degrees sometime during my visit, but I'm not counting on it. Occasional patches of blue sky remind me of what is possible,...
Routing the I/O stack
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, low-latency...
Liqid’s composable infrastructure
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 to configure...
NAB 2017 storage roundup
Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as well. Here's what caught my eye. Object storage - often optimized for large files - continues to be a growth area....
Is NetApp still doomed?
A reader wrote to ask for the StorageMojo take on NetApp now, as opposed to the assessment in How doomed is NetApp? two years ago. Q3 had some good news for NetApp. In their latest 10Q filing, they noted that while revenues for the first 9 months of the year were down...
Spin Transfer Technologies: next up in the MRAM race
MRAM technology is hot. I've written about Everspin - they've been shipping for years and just IPO'd - and now I'd like to introduce Spin Transfer Technologies. They've kept a low profile - they AREN'T shipping, are sampling protos, and they do have some nice...
Sizing the overconfig effect on the array market
For decades customers routinely overconfigured storage arrays to get performance. Customers bought the most costly hard drives - 15k SAS or FC - at huge markups. Then they'd short stroke the already limited capacity of these high cost drives - turning a 900GB drive...
Hike blogging: Deadmans Pass panorama
I've been hiking a lot the last couple of weeks, getting in shape after a long hiatus. Today I took a loop that I've never done counterclockwise and even though it shouldn't have made much difference, it was a much more enjoyable hike. The loop began with an easy walk...
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