The massive amount of unstructured data being created has vendors pushing to deliver object storage systems. There are many object systems available now from new and established vendors, and others are privately talking about bringing out new object systems soon. Objects,...
Read More »GigaOM’s annual Structure Data event, held typically during March in New York City, is billed as a Big Data analytics event. But I’m a self-confessed storage bigot and I saw this latest edition as a storage event. Cloud computing aficionados likely saw...
Read More »A recent conversation I had about the cost of storage made me think that talking about the cost of storage is the wrong way to approach it. The discussion should be about the value that storage delivers. Trying to explain the complex...
Read More »I had just departed IBM when Lou Gertsner, joined the company as IBM’s CEO. In some ways, seeing Meg Whitman enter into HP feels like a throw-back to his entry. The naysayers that have stood at the side lines and...
Read More »The interest in deploying solid state storage is still building, but there are already a handful of ways to introduce solid state technology into existing IT infrastructures: • As a PCIe solid state memory card installed in a server with...
Read More »Automated tiering has become a popular offering among most major storage vendors. The ability to automatically and intelligently move part of a LUN or volume to the appropriate storage media based on performance requirements or frequency of use has shown a performance...
Read More »I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop,...
Read More »There are many opinions regarding how to handle information storage for big data analytics. By big data analytics, I’m referring to information associated with a data analytics operation that does the analysis in near real-time to present immediately actionable results. The most...
Read More »My Dad is a captain – former skipper of a USN destroyer, cruise ship and others. I am not a fan of sailing, in as much as this ‘julie’ gets sea-sick. However, I have been on enough ships, heard enough...
Read More »The use of solid state-based storage systems is rapidly increasing. So far, solid state technology has been deployed to accelerate applications in specific environments. Successes have been demonstrated for increasing the number of transactions a system can perform, the number of virtual...
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