A couple of weeks ago I did a webcast with Hewlett Packard’s David Scott, General Manager of their storage division. The event was MC’d by Calvin Zito, the infamous @hpstorageguy. In the video we talk about some of the general challenges in storage and of course as you’d expect, David [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Last week I attended the Next Generation Storage Symposium (NGSS) in San Jose. This was a forerunner to the second Storage Field Day, which I didn’t attend, however. In the NGSS I moderated a panel discussion on next generation storage architecture, with Dave Wright from [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In the first wave of solid-state storage arrays, we saw commodity style SSDs (solid state drives) being added to traditional storage arrays. This solution provided an incremental benefit in performance over spinning hard drives, however the back-end technology in these arrays was developed up to 20 years ago and was purely focused around driving performance [...]
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