February 14, 2020
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…
January 31, 2020
Bad NAS advice, bad NVMe advice, bad data recovery advice, some good NVMe advice, and a whole bunch of technology updates.
November 1, 2019
This may be a “short take,” but there are a LOT of them in this update. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a ride!
July 12, 2019
After a prolonged absence, we’re back with another data center storage short take.
March 1, 2019
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…
November 15, 2018
A quick and dirty roundup of some Data Center storage news and information over the past couple weeks.
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.