The 80/20 rule… for storage systems.
The 80/20 rule is often attributed to an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto. Born in 1848, Pareto was (inspirationally at least) one of the early members of the occupy movement: he observed that...
View ArticleTechnologies that transform.
Change fascinates me. It always has. More specifically, I’m talking about imposed change. Not the weather, not the seasons, not the length of your hair. The act of making a calculated and directed...
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Five recent results in high-performance data paths.
First, a little context: Co-op at Coho At this time of year, Coho’s engineering team interviews applicants for co-op (4 month) and intern (12 month) student placements on the team. We take these...
View ArticleFlash Storage – Worth Its Weight In… Aluminum?
I want to talk about flash storage. That amazing high speed medium that delivers high performance at a costly price. You are probably familiar with the old saying “Worth its weight in gold!” Well,...
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Software Defined Storage is About Control
Coho is frequently accused of being a “software defined” storage system. I don’t particularly love this term, because I think it is hugely overloaded. I fear that most people who hear “software...
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Docker in your Data: Data Services as Microservices
In 1953, Norman Larsen discovered a way to keep nuclear missiles dry. As a 33 year-old, largely self-educated chemist and inventor, Larsen had been working for years to develop a compound that would...
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Why you don’t need Vvols in Coho Data
Why Coho’s Users don’t need vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols) Having driven the design of vSphere’s feature Virtual Volumes (VVols) as a product manager for what feels like an eternity after almost 4...
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Active data, not passive storage.
TL;DR: Today, Coho is announcing support for running containerized applications within our enterprise storage system. This is the beginning of something really, really cool. Now, the longer version....
View ArticleYour AFA is not a hot dog
“Lips, hooves, and arsles.” When I was in college I had a roommate that grew up on a farm. Whenever we went shopping for groceries, he couldn’t resist commenting as we passed by the hot dogs: “Right,...
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Coho’s SRA plugin – helping you do the right thing™
Coho Data is soon to release v2.6 of their DataStream software. This release is chocked full of goodness; don’t worry there’ll be a blog post covering all the high-level features. I wanted to take this...
View ArticleStorage is now a network problem.
The Bugatti Veyron was designed with a singular purpose: to be the fastest, most awe-inspiring, and most envied sports car ever designed. The performance goals were jaw-droppingly ambitious — the...
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Cash for Cache? Why?
Performance in the storage industry is what we all as architects have strived to attain. This has been a tricky balance when combined with the need to provide availability, mobility, shared resources,...
View ArticleDeja vu: Storage goes the way of compute infrastructure
I grew up in a valley nestled in the lower Himalayas. When we needed to send a package to friends in different cities, my dad would send me to the local truck agency. They would charge arbitrary,...
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