After 15 years in the industry I have seen a lot of “truths” as hardware, software, and deployments have evolved. While not all of them have panned out, there are two that continue to prove themselves:
Applications drive the business...
Anyone paying attention to storage trends in the datacenter will be acutely aware of the increasing presence of all-flash arrays (AFA). As Storage and IT administrators become more comfortable with the unique characteristics of flash when compared to...
As we reach the end of the year, one of my favorite things to do is look through a never-ending supply of lists: Christmas lists from my kids and family; “Best of …” lists for 2014; and “Top Predictions for …” lists for the coming year. While I’ve ...
I recently ran across an article by Robin Harris of StorageMojo that took an interesting take on the long term futures of DAS and SAN.
I would recommend that you read the article, but in summation, Mr. Harris looked at the advancement of network int...
“What is SmartIO and what does it do?” Since the launch of Storage Foundation 6.1, I’ve been asked that question by all sorts of people in all sorts of situations. The most concise answer I have is that “SmartIO makes everything in a SAN faster”. ...
Brem,
Glad to hear this got resolved.
For your local Fusion-IO devices, would it be useful to be able to migrate the cache over during a fail-over?
So when your app moved from node a to node b, the cache is pre-warmed.
