Tag Archives: SFD8

Violin Memory have cool technology, but do they have a future? I hope so!

Since visiting Violin Memory at Storage Field Day 8, it has taken me a while to get around to writing this post, and I guess the reason is [..]

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Secondary can be just as important as Primary

There can be little doubt these days, that the future of the storage industry for primary transactional workloads is All Flash. Finito, that ship has sailed, the door [..]

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Why are storage snapshots so painful?

Have you ever wondered why we don’t use snapshots more often than about every 5-15 minutes in most solutions, and in many others, a lot less often than [..]

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Where and why is my data growing?…

I’ve written recently about issues of data gravity and data inertia, and about how important analytics are to managing your data “stockpile”, but one thing I haven’t gone [..]

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