NetApp Completes ionGrid Acquisition
One of the lesser known stories of NetApp’s earnings report this week is that they have completed the acquisition of ionGrid; mobility software that allows corporate users to access internal documents...
View ArticleYou Can’t Automate Chaos: Why Cloud is the Last Thing You Should Do
Ask a cloud question to an IT vendor and then brace yourself for the over-zealous spew of hazy cloud jargon that is as laden with product as it is light on detail. With vendors being the chief...
View ArticleCloud Chaos: Nirvanix Shuts Down
When most of us think of “Cloud” in the context of “Disasters”, we see opportunity. Cloud storage offers us a geo-redundant landing platform where we can place data to achieve far greater resiliency...
View ArticleWhy Pure Storage?
I’m excited to say that earlier this month I made the decision to join the Pure Storage team as a Systems Engineer. Since sharing my decision, I have been asked by friends, fellow architects and...
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All-Flash Madness: Shortcuts, Caveats and Disruptions
In the high-stakes race to own part of the $60B flash market, manufacturers have cut corners to get their flash products out the door. They have all the features you are looking for, but you will be...
View ArticleLearning Flash: For Storage Engineers
If you are a storage engineer and have a pulse, then you cannot deny we are in the midst of the single most defining era in data storage history. Never before have we witnessed a quantum leap of such...
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Latency vs IOPs: Why Flash Matters
This post is part of the “Learning Flash: For Storage Engineers” series. Click here, if you missed the intro post. For us storage engineers, more has almost always been the answer to storage...
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Magnets vs Electrons: The Foundation of Flash
This post is part of the “Learning Flash: For Storage Engineers” series. Click here, if you missed the intro post. If we are going to really understand flash, we need to start at the basics. Back to...
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Floating Gates and Electron Tunnels: Flash Retains Data
This post is part of the “Learning Flash: For Storage Engineers” series. Click here, if you missed the intro post. Finally, my friends, we are getting to the good stuff. In this post, I’ll be...
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Density and Disturbances: The NAND Block
This post is part of the “Learning Flash: For Storage Engineers” series. Click here, if you missed the intro post. I apologize for the entirely inexcusable delay between posts in this series. I had...
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