Reading this recent article on ZDNet I was struck by the pointlessness of Google’s 1TB of user storage offering. This may seem like a bold statement, but let’s look at the figures and the offering. If you buy a Chromebook Pixel, it comes with [...]
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The title of this post could quite easily have been asked in reverse – is Cloud ready for the enterprise? Either way, understanding what IT means to the Enterprise is fundamental to answering the question.
The attached diagram (I’ll hold short of calling it an infographic) explains how the Enterprise has evolved over the [...]
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Cloud Storage Gateways provide the ability to write data directly into a cloud service/storage provider, either via a physical or virtual onsite appliance. There are many vendors in the marketplace today and some are making serious money, (as reported by Chris Mellor today in [...]
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Following up from yesterday’s post and the comments received, I thought it was worth considering how hard it would actually be to implement quality of service within a storage array.
Almost all storage arrays available today (whether physical or virtual) work on the assumption that I/O should be delivered as fast as [...]
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Last year I did some research and wrote up a couple of posts on Cloud Compute performance. One feature that seems to get left out somewhat is storage I/O performance; the cloud offerings talk about capacity, but rarely reference performance.
Recently, I reviewed the options available from the major [...]
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There have been two interesting and contrasting announcements covering cloud storage in the last couple of weeks. The first was NetApp, who have announced “NetApp Private Storage for AWS”. which seems to a proprietary way of replicating data into the AWS cloud. The second comes [...]
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August seems to have been the month for a huge raft of storage-related announcements and I’m still getting to grips with the detail, after being away on holiday for the whole month. As I start to pick out the news and make sense of how it fits into the storage landscape, I thought I’d start [...]
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