For those people who are looking to find out information about NVMe (NVM Express), but don’t know where to start, this is a course syllabi that can be used as a “program of study.”
Storage Forces
What are the pressures that prevent a “Grand Unification Theory” of Storage?
The Grand Unification Storage Theory
I read with interest an article on The Register about a panel that happened at TECHunplugged (I wish I had known about this; I would have tried to attend in person if possible). The article was entitled “One Storage Protocol to Rule Them All” by Chris Evans, who is someone I like and respect a great deal in the industry. …
Follow-up: Synology Responds to My Questions
Synology responds to some of my questions about the new DSM 6.0 backup methodology.
Synology Releases DSM 6.0: New Backup Methodology
Synology’s new backup strategy raises some questions, and Synology responds.
Review: Synology DS216+ First Look
A few weeks ago Synology sent me a DS216+ to review. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a lot of time to give it the thorough examination as I had wished, but I did manage to do a couple of quick tests in a temporary (that is, don’t try this at home or for a long-term solution) configuration. Overall I found the …
A NVMe Bibliography
A bibliography of NVMe educational materials, organized by topic.
Synology DSM 5.2 Beta Could Be A Big Deal
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Synology. The company has always, always treated me well. In fact if more companies acted like Synology did, I think that we’d have a lot of very happy consumers out there. It’s also no secret that I simply do not trust “The Cloud” for securing personal data. As I’ve said before …
A Brief History of the Internet
You probably thought that the Internet was created to survive a nuclear attack. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the true origins of the Internet had no military usage whatsoever. How do I know? I talked to several people who actually created the Internet (well, it was called the ARPANET back then). I took the material from …
Unboxing: Synology DS414 Slim
Unboxing the Synology DS414 Slim NAS device, and sharing initial impressions.
Bandwidth, Latency and Throughput, the Star Trek Way
Okay, I know there are a lot of different explanations about how to describe these common components of networks (see, for instance, here, here, here, here, and here), but every once in a while I get a question about whether or not 40G will make things go “faster” in networks (often relating to FCoE and storage in general). Why write another …
Brocade and Evaluator Group’s Really, Really Bad FCoE Study
It’s been almost four years to the month that I took on Gartner’s horrible anti-FCoE diatribe, and since then I’ve joined Cisco, written a few more blogs, and even gone toe-to-toe with the technology’s largest critic – Brocade. For the most part, the tete-a-tete has been cordial, if a little snarky (just the way I like it!), and generally falls …
SNIA SDC Observations, Part II: The Not-So-Good
In my first post, I was talking about how the SNIA Storage Developer’s Conference really met and exceeded expectations in a lot of ways. There were many shining moments, but unfortunately there were quite a few disappointing ones as well.
SNIA Storage Developer’s Conference Observations, Part I
This past week I went to the SNIA Storage Developer’s Conference in Santa Clara. It was the first time that I came to a conference as an attendee in a very, very long time. Overall, the experience was positive and interesting, but there were some moments of disappointment as well, as some of the major limitations of storage perceptions came …
Cagematch: Synology vs. Drobo
This post is a long time coming and is extremely overdue. The only reason why I am finally getting off my rump and writing something is because today I was forwarded an open letter, “mea culpa” article written by Tom Buiocchi, CEO of Drobo on Scott Kelby’s site. Now, I only got the link to Mr. Buiocchi’s response, and I …