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Storage Short Take #24

In Storage, Technology by J Michel Metz1 Comment

A Happy Valentine’s Day to you! And because I love you so, so much, here’s the next edition of the Storage Short Take. In this Short Take, NVMe Key-Value emerges from its lab, some more 2020 predictions, some funding rounds, and quite a bit of conference activity. As always, links were live upon publication. Storage Media and Technology Storage Companies in …

Storage Short Take #5 – Happy New Year!

In Storage, Technology by J Michel Metz5 Comments

Welcome to 2019! I hope that you had a safe and festive one. It’s only been 2 weeks since the last Storage Short Take and – hopefully – you didn’t need or care about Data Center Storage during that time! Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean a lot of stuff didn’t happen, or isn’t going on. So, without further ado…

Moving to FCoE

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The appeal of an all-FCoE data center is obvious. Reduce complexity in the data center, reduce the physical assets, reduce the operating expenses (huge power savings potential), very little learning curve, familiar tools. Pretty soon it starts sounding like a no-brainer. But that isn’t the end of the story; it’s just the beginning.