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...
View ArticleReal 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...
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 ArticleCan Mac ZFS be saved?
The convoluted path of OS X ZFS is taking another turn. Greenbytes, who bought Zevo from Tens Complement, will be transitioning the Mac ZFS product – Zevo – out of their company sometime this summer....
View ArticleStorageMojo’s Best Papers of FAST ’14
StorageMojo publisher TechnoQWAN’s crack analysts have been poring over the FAST ’14 papers. After much contention and more than a few retries they have achieved consensus. There is so much good work...
View ArticleOpen vStorage
Open vStorage is a new virtual storage system coming out of stealth mode. Designed to enable virtual machines to run directly from object storage, it is a layer between the hypervisor and the object...
View ArticleWhy it’s hard to meet SLAs with SSDs
From their earliest days, people have reported that SSDs were not providing the performance they expected. As SSDs age, for instance, they get slower. But how much slower? And why? A common use of SSDs...
View ArticleCloudVelox: building a freeway into the cloud
You have a data center full of Windows and Linux servers running your key applications. How do you migrate them to the cloud; or, at the very least, enable cloud-based disaster recovery? That’s the...
View ArticleVMworld next week
The StorageMojo crack analyst team is busy polishing their cowboy boots and ironing their jeans to get respectable (why now?) for next week’s VMworld in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is a short – by Western...
View ArticleNotes on VMworld 2016
Spent the day on the show floor at Vmworld 2016 in sunny Las Vegas. Saw some interesting things. Panzuraa now offers byte-range locking on their global collaboration platform. They’ve been having great...
View ArticlePurpose built backup appliances: cloud collateral damage
It makes sense that the WW purpose-built backup appliance would be suffering. Cloud-based data gets IaaS provider DR, while cloud backup software handles day-to-day backup, and modern object storage...
View ArticleCloud integration now mandatory for storage
Spoke to the fine folks at Cloudtenna. Their thing: Cloudtenna is the first platform to generate augmented intelligence on top of your existing file repositories. The Direct Content Intelligence...
View ArticleLiqid’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...
View ArticleRouting 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...
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