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Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin

October 17, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin

There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …

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The Unlikely Marriage of Databases and Object Storage

October 17, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on The Unlikely Marriage of Databases and Object Storage

The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. …

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Point To Point In The Datacenter With Andy Bechtolsheim

October 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Point To Point In The Datacenter With Andy Bechtolsheim

Most people in the IT community tend to their fields, making their living in their patches, but there are some who change the landscape, and still fewer who do it again and again. …

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Cloud Storage: More Than Instant Gratification and Near Infinite Scale

October 8, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Cloud Storage: More Than Instant Gratification and Near Infinite Scale

For more than a decade, the ease and elasticity of cloud storage has slowly been drawing enterprise users away from their beloved in-house datacenters. …

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Building A File System That’s Primed for the Times

October 6, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Building A File System That’s Primed for the Times

One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions than whiz-bang technology. …

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Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges

October 6, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges

Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.

In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape.  …

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Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy

October 6, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy

The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …

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Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

September 16, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …

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Keeping Pace with Rapid Storage Sophistication

September 13, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off on Keeping Pace with Rapid Storage Sophistication

It used to be far easier to talk about storage performance, cost, and options. …

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