Open source storage array
Most business files are only opened a few times, yet remain valuable enough to keep on line, just in case. That cold data is normally stored on high-performance, high-price NAS boxes at $$/GB. Why? 2...
View ArticleThe per-slot cost metric
Commenters on the last post – Open source storage array – helped crystallize an idea that’s been lurking for years: comparing disk storage hardware on per-slot price. The Backblaze box, which costs...
View ArticleBeta hunt: Java Platform as a Service
Running – or planning to run – some bigtime Java apps? A Silicon Valley startup named Cumulogic is looking for a few good beta testers to help them wring out their Java Paas. Their ideal tester can use...
View ArticleStorage @VMworld 2011
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost...
View ArticleThe network is choking our storage
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more...
View ArticleCleversafe: 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,...
View ArticleThe post-RAID era begins
The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren’t going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives...
View ArticleMore efficient erasure coding in Windows Azure storage
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. But at scale it will never be free. At scale – today, petabytes; in a decade, dozenss of petabytes – even a few per cent savings amounts to real dollars....
View ArticleDRAM errors soft and hard
Research (see Nightmare on DIMM street) a few years ago found that DRAM error rates were hundreds to thousands of times higher than vendors had led us believe. But what is the nature of those errors?...
View ArticleCoolest new product @SNW-Europe: Silent Cubes
Walking the floor of the SNW-Europe expo mostly meant seeing companies and products already familiar in the US. But there was one surprising exception: Fast LTA. The LTA stands for Long Term Archiving....
View ArticleBig Data in Formula 1 racing
All the talk about Big Data tends to devolve to media & entertainment, biotech, streaming web data and geophysical. But Big Data is arriving in places we don’t often consider. Such as Formula 1...
View ArticleCloud Expo up next
The top analysts at StorageMojo packing up their saddlebags for the long ride to the International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. I’ll be moderating a panel discussion Tuesday at...
View ArticleBig Data and object storage: lessons learned
I’ve had the pleasure of moderating a half-dozen panel discussions on Big Data and object storage in the last few months. It’s been a learning experience. Big Data has always been as big as we could...
View Article2013: Year of the slog
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM...
View ArticleThe stovepipe vs the grid
Hewlett-Packard made a major announcement in December: their grid-based StoreServ 7000 based on 3PAR software. 3PAR has been selling enterprise-class storage for almost a decade and HP is building on...
View ArticleWhy virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose
I was asked at the SNIA nonvolatile memory conference why I did not include virtualization as a major driver for the use of nonvolatile memory. Flash helps with the multiple virtual machine I/O blender...
View ArticleFronting 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...
View ArticleEMC 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...
View ArticleEMC 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...
View ArticleCloud 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...
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