Techno Musings

There has been a lot of positive reaction to our unified compute announcement from last week.  However there were very interesting words from both 3PAR and Storagebod about our announcement in their blogs.  (As for 3PAR, well like NetApp they don’t have any kind of a server business in their back pocket — we’ll get [...]

Power to the SSD So I’ve been looking into the benefits of Solid State Storage Devices over Hard Disk Storage Drives. Personally, I’m more infatuated by the performance advantage than the power advantage, but both play in this discussion. In fact, one solves the problem of the other as I’ll try to show. If you [...]

Does HDP Make gas, or Just Removes Gas? When I was a kid, my dad was nursing this old Dodge Dart with a 318 cubic inch V8 engine that he drove around and was also used as the family car. This is back in the days when huge catalogs were sent to your house instead [...]

Storage Fusion – StoraFgUeSION – SfTuOsRiAoGnE “HybridStorage” refers to the mix of flash and magnetic storage medias blended together to increase performance and efficiency. This particular effort is part of the HybridStorage Alliance to promote and educate the industry on the benefits and advantages of this approach. While I’m not personally involved in this organization’s [...]

My flippant title is a bit intentional after all when tiering your data many people dock their data someplace to save it for a rainy day.  Sometimes that is indeed the case and perhaps files are placed in a long term tier for safe keeping. Typically we call this an active archive so that when [...]

Over the past several years governmental organizations, commercial ventures and educational institutions have all been “waking up” to the fact that electronically stored information is something that society in general has to govern and protect. You can see the trends of it all around if you look. For example, the recent tussle over the standardization [...]