Drobo is announcing a new product today called the DroboFS that finally puts the Ethernet interface into the box storage subsystem. Although Ethernet connectivity has been possible via the DroboShare, the throughput performance hasn't been good enough for many business so this represents a major … [Read more...]
Extreme Tiered Storage: Flash, Disk, and Cloud
February 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
My presence at Storage Expo NL may have been cursed, but my presentation went off without a hitch thanks to the creativity and flexibility of the VNU staff and Expo volunteers like Ilja Coolen. In my session, I talked about the shortcomings of traditional tiered storage as a way to advance the Noble … [Read more...]
Not a Cloud Storage Problem
November 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Before we all get carried away and pick on Cloud Storage as a specific target; perhaps we should sit back and think. It is not Cloud Storage; it is the Public Cloud which is the problem; the most visible failures have been storage related, but let's be honest; without storage, you don't have a Cloud … [Read more...]
Symantec FileStore
October 5, 2009 by 1 Comment
Symantec today announced the availability of FileStore, a resilient clustered NAS platform that the company uses internally to deliver its Norton Online Backup and Symantec Hosted Services backup and archiving services. Although FileStore is not a cloud storage platform in its own right, it could … [Read more...]
Economic Truth
September 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Steve Duplessie posts on Cloud Economics and especially the economics of Cloud Storage, 20 TBs of storage from Amazon's S3 cloud will cost you $36,000 a year and that doesn't necessarily compare especially well with purchasing your own array. So do the economics of the Cloud storage scale, … [Read more...]
We Don’t Need Cloud Standards (Yet)
September 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Championing “open” and calling for standards has become the first stalling action by late-movers in technology spaces. They see opportunity passing by and try to hold back progress and FUD the market by yelling about proprietary solutions, vendor lock-in, and a lack of standards. Many … [Read more...]
Unified Storage Problems?
August 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
NetApp's unified storage platform is a compelling vision for a customer; one platform to support pretty much all your storage needs. It is a powerful sell, it is still pretty much a USP for them; everyone else has to fake it by glomming together storage products and pretending. But if we dig a … [Read more...]
EMC Changes the Rules with Atmos Compute
August 19, 2009 by 5 Comments
Update: As of October EMC has officially revealed the Atmos Online Compute Service, and it is as we suggested back in August. EMC is a storage company, right? Not anymore! Under Joe Tucci, the disk giant from Hopkinton has been diversifying rapidly, with acquisitions like VMware, Documentum, RSA, … [Read more...]
Flexible Thinking
July 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I think that there is some interesting discussion to be had from Hu's latest blog in response to my own comments and thoughts about whether storage virtualisation as demonstrated by the external storage virtualisation devices has a long-term future. The response is not really to do with … [Read more...]