Howard Marks recounts his early work helping his dad place high-tech gear in movies and TV shows.
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HPE's introduction of NVDIMMs into its new ProLiant servers will boost the storage software market.
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Version 6.2 of the storage product boosts efficiency via data reduction and erasure coding.
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Howard Marks explains why he was wrong about how hybrid storage systems will evolve.
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With the rise of all-flash arrays and object storage, big and fast no longer go together for enterprise storage.
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Figuring out the actual cost of storage products such as hyperconvergence appliances can be tricky.
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OCZ's Saber 1000 gives storage designers the ability to optimize their use of solid-state drives and improve performance.
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In the wake of Dell's proposed acquisition of EMC, customers should re-evaluate their storage choices and prepare to see some product lines discontinued.
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The dog days of August are when the storage industry heats up, with two major events. Contributor Howard Marks will be speaking and joining the fun at Flash Memory Summit and VMworld.
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There are multiple reasons why Cisco's Whiptail acquisition failed, leading the company to discontinue its flash storage products.
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Howard Marks responds to a recent Network Computing blog arguing that SSD pricing is falling to hard-disk drive levels and putting HDDs on the road to obsolescence.
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Today, storage is mostly all about software, but Pure Storage's FlashArray//m proves that hardware still plays a big role.
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The market analyst firm's Magic Quadrant for all-flash storage arrays is based on criteria that hamstring vendors and reduce customer choice.
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Combining all-flash and hyperconvergence isn't such a bad idea after all, Howard Marks says after seeing Atlantis Computing's appliance.
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Virtual storage like VSAN must take the storage part of the equation seriously and incorporate better resiliency to avoid data loss.
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Joint flash memory ventures Intel-Micron and Toshiba-SanDisk are overcoming the limitations of conventional planar flash memory by going 3D.
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Howard Marks uncovers the meaning behind software-defined storage, how hyperconvergence fits in, and where these technologies make sense -- and don't.
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SanDisk's new storage appliance targets hyper-scale data centers with an emphasis on record-setting density and low cost, but isn't really an all-flash array.
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The difference between a software-defined storage product and one that's software delivered has more to do a vendor's go-to-market strategy than technical features.
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The arrival of VVOLs with vSphere 6 will allow us to provide data services at the VM-level and put an end to impractical LUN management.
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The arrival of EMC's VSPEX Blue hyper-converged appliance highlights the differences between products jockeying for attention in the growing collection of those based on VMware's EVO:RAIL.
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Software costs add up quickly in today's virtualized datacenters. Does it make more sense to buy a few big servers or a bunch of little ones? I compare the costs.
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Erasure coding is used in scale-out object storage systems from a variety of vendors and open-source software projects. Just don't expect it to solve all your data protection problems.
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Erasure coding is promoted by some in the storage industry as a data protection alternative to RAID. Here's how it works.
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Vendors tout hyperconverged systems like EVO:RAIL as less expensive than more conventional storage systems. After pricing my own EVO:RAIL-like system, I found otherwise.
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