Cloud conversations: Has Nirvanix shutdown caused cloud confidence concerns? Recently seven plus year old cloud storage startup Nirvanix announced that…
Proof of life: Enterprise Hard Disk Drives (HDD's) are enhanced Last week while hard disk drive (HDD) competitor Western Digital…
Consequently, in the data center or information factory, either traditional, virtual, converged, private, hybrid or public cloud, everything is not…
Last week Imation, the company that is known for making CDs, DVDs, magnetic tape and in the past floppy disk…
In order to gain confidence in clouds, some questions that I routinely am asked include are clouds more or less…
In case you missed it, there were some public cloud outages during the recent Christmas 2012-holiday season. One incident involved…
Welcome to the December 2012 year end edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and additional…
Ceph is used for deploying object storage, cloud storage and managed services, general purpose storage for research, commercial, scientific, high…
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement) is a book written Eric Redmond…
Normally solid state devices (SSD) including non-persistent DRAM, and persistent nand flash are thought of in the context of performance…