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Author Archives: Alex Galbraith
Words Mean Things, Apparently – Deduplication Myths Explored
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet? We might all agree that this is most definitely the case, but in the technology industry we have [..]
Storage Field Day 9 – Behind the Curtain
Tech Field Day is an awesome experience for all of the delegates! We get to spend an entire week unabashedly geeking out, as well as hanging out with [..]
Tech Field Day
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You had me at Tiered Non-Volatile Memory!
Memory isn’t cheap! Despite the falling costs and increasing sizes of DRAM DIMMS, it’s still damned expensive compared to most non-volatile media at a price per GB. What’s [..]
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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