We Need a Storage Revolution
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
Although many discussions in the storage industry focus on the relative merits of one protocol or another, the conversation occasionally turns to the core issue at hand: We continue to patch together a system based on outdated concepts. Most storage protocols continue to mimic direct attached storage, and most of our so-called networks act as point to point channels. An ultra-modern virtualized storage infrastructure with all the latest bells and whistles still holds the concepts of block and file at its core. Whenever the storage industry has tried to bring about real storage management they have been stymied by a lack of context for data.
No amount of virtualization, and no new protocol, will fix this. Put simply, we need a storage revolution. Continue Reading »


