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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...

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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...

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Why 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...

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Can 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....

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StorageMojo’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...

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Open 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...

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Why 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...

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CloudVelox: 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...

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VMworld 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...

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Notes 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...

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Purpose 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...

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Cloud 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...

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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...

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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...

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