Category: DATA STORAGE

Another VMworld has come and gone and still we havent seen the production deployment of VVOLs. Just to recap, VVOLs are the evolution of the packaging of virtual machines that currently reside in data...

Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) has been a perennial topic at VMworlds dating all the way back to closed door sessions in 2010, and more broadly in 2011 and 2012.  The reason is simple: 1. Datastores...

  25 years ago I was working on DEC’s earliest RAID array. When I look at today’s “high-end” arrays, it’s shocking how little architectural change the big iron arrays have embraced. The industry is...

  Typically, service-level descriptions are used to codify expectations with respect to storageefficiency. It’s as if vendors are seeking to apply the old Supreme Court definition ofpornographic materials — “I know it when I...

  Two years ago, IBM released the specification for the Linear TapeFile System (LTFS). The standard is open, enables drag-and-drop compatibility with desktop filesystems and applications, and works with standard Linear Tape-Open (LTO)tape drives....

  This World Backup Day piece is part of my ongoing Data Protection Diaries series of posts (www.dataprotecitondiaries.com) about trends, strategies, tools and best practices spanning applications, archiving, backup/restore, business continuance (BC), business resiliency...

  Now and then somebody asks me if I’m familiar with flash or nand flash Solid State Devices (SSD) technologies and trends. Having been involved with various types of SSD technology, products and solutions...

  IBM’s vestigial hardware business – 15.5% of Q4 company revenue – continues to slide. This won’t end well. In its Q4/2013 earnings call, IBM’s profits were higher than forecast, but revenues were lower....

  The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It...