SSD arrays: limits of architectural critiques
Over at Network Computing my friend Howard Marks took StorageMojo to task for questioning using commodity SSDs in solid state storage arrays. In his response he made several points about latency, bandwidth, cost and reliability. Latency [Robin] says that SAS/SATA...
Real storage for a virtual world
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
Coraid’s scale-out architecture
Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO - at Coraid, Kevin Brown - has made a world...
Cleversafe: massive storage, massive patents
Spoke to Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO of Cleversafe at NAB 2012. Cleversafe had stopped communicating a few years ago - usually a bad sign - so an update was long overdue. When last heard from, Cleversafe had an ISP/MSP target market, offered an open-source version...
SSD symposium tomorrow
Maximizing value for time spent is a difficult calculus. Especially when it the goal is perspective rather than information. Efficient use of your time will be why the Solid State Storage Symposium works. Starting at 10am at the Doubletree San Jose Airport and going...
Amplidata’s distributed object store
Our digital civilization requires data integrity and long-term preservation, and neither is assured by our current storage infrastructure. But progress continues. Latest case in point: Amplidata. This 4 year old company, based in Belgium with a growing US footprint,...
Violin’s clean-sheet architecture
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was ". . . on the winning architectural track." Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo's enthusiasm was kindled by Violin's unique architecture. Here's a...
Nimble Storage: StorageMojo is wrong!
Actually, StorageMojo is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. Umesh Maheshwari of Nimble Storage wrote a detailed and thoughtful response to the StorageMojo post Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea? The StorageMojo take Umesh makes good points, but perhaps due to...
In thinking about SSDs, consider HA
More is coming on SSDs RSN, but in the meantime there is the following piece from Virsto's Eric Burgener on HA considerations for SSDs. Virsto is a software company focused on making VIRtual STOrage for VMware and HyperV much more functional than the physical kind....
Tintri responds on SSD arrays
StorageMojo offered its soapbox to any vendors willing to weigh in on the question of whether enterprise arrays should be built from flash SSDs or not. Ed Lee, architect at Tintri, formerly of Data Domain and a Berkeley Ph.D, elected to respond. It is a long piece but...
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