Another VMworld has come and gone and still we havent seen the production deployment of VVOLs. Just to recap, VVOLs…
Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) has been a perennial topic at VMworlds dating all the way back to closed door sessions in…
25 years ago I was working on DEC’s earliest RAID array. When I look at today’s “high-end” arrays, it’s…
Typically, service-level descriptions are used to codify expectations with respect to storageefficiency. It’s as if vendors are seeking to…
Two years ago, IBM released the specification for the Linear TapeFile System (LTFS). The standard is open, enables drag-and-drop…
This World Backup Day piece is part of my ongoing Data Protection Diaries series of posts (www.dataprotecitondiaries.com) about trends,…
One of the little known or little explored secrets with servers running VMware ESXi 5.x is they can be booted…
Now and then somebody asks me if I’m familiar with flash or nand flash Solid State Devices (SSD) technologies…
IBM’s vestigial hardware business – 15.5% of Q4 company revenue – continues to slide. This won’t end well. In…
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel…