Profile of Jim O'Reilly

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Member Since: 11/17/2013
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Blog Posts: 19
Posts: 27

Jim O'Reilly was Vice President of Engineering at Germane Systems, where he created ruggedized servers and storage for the US submarine fleet. He has also held senior management positions at SGI/Rackable and Verari; was CEO at startups Scalant and CDS; headed operations at PC Brand and Metalithic; and led major divisions of Memorex-Telex and NCR, where his team developed the first SCSI ASIC, now in the Smithsonian. Jim is currently a consultant focused on storage and cloud computing.

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Ethernet: The New Storage Area Network

2/24/2014
Widespread adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and rapid advancement of even faster speeds of the protocol push Fibre Channel out of the datacenter.
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Is Google Glass Obsolete?

2/21/2014
Google Glass costs too much and lacks killer apps -- and new technologies will soon make the original version seem wimpy. That's not bad news for Google.
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Gluster Vs. Ceph: Open Source Storage Goes Head-To-Head

1/27/2014
Storage appliances using open-source Ceph and Gluster offer similar advantages with great cost benefits. Which is faster and easier to use?
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Ethernet Interfaces Transform Object Storage

1/15/2014
New direct Ethernet interfaces for object-oriented storage will change the rules of storage, allowing for large performance gains.
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Whiteboxes Are In Your Future

12/20/2013
Open-source hardware is growing fast, and will soon penetrate enterprise storage. Here's why you'll see more inexpensive whiteboxes in 2014.
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SSDs Dragged Storage Out Of The Dark Ages In 2013

12/11/2013
Storage has made significant technical progress this year. SSD and flash are now mainstream, and HDD is sliding (slowly) towards the retirement home.
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Object Storage: The Next Storage Paradigm

11/25/2013
Object storage is evolving from a data archive to the primary form of storage in large systems.
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Intel's Mojo Returns

11/15/2013
Intel is finally putting together a sensible set of solutions that should bring back marketshare in emerging markets and stave off challenges in its profitable server business.
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Fibre Channel Just Can't Keep Up

11/15/2013
The SAN connector of choice, Fibre Channel, is being crowded out by much faster and more flexible competitors. It might be time for its swan song.
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An Integrated Appliance Can Run Your Private Coud

11/15/2013
A new breed of private cloud appliances offers a wealth of benefits to enterprises and vendors alike.
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Cloud, SSD Make Servers Fight For Survival

11/15/2013
Two trends are hitting the server market hard. One is life extension from SSD and in-memory operations. The other is a systemic decline caused by the cloud.
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Moving NAS To The Cloud

11/15/2013
Using the cloud in lieu of -- or in addition to -- network attached storage is a good option for the right types of data.
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TCP May Lose Out To Faster QUIC

11/15/2013
The 20-year-old Internet protocol, HTTP over TCP, has outlived its usefulness. Will Google's QUIC replace it?
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SSD Vendors: The Enterprise Storage Market Evolves

11/15/2013
As the market for enterprise storage matures, SSD vendors like Intel and Samsung are in the lead. Acquisitions and emerging technologies could change that.
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Best Use Cases For Cloud Storage

11/15/2013
With all the options for storage today, including SSD to flash cards, choosing what enterprise data to store in the cloud or via SaaS can be tricky.
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Ceph Poised To Change Data Center and Cloud Storage

11/15/2013
Ceph, a type of open source file system for Linux, is hitting the mainstream with the potential to have big effects on storage in the data center and the cloud.
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SAN, NAS, And Object Storage Unite

11/15/2013
The best elements of SAN, NAS, and object storage are coming together in converged storage solutions for the enterprise.
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Is Software-Defined Anything Worth the Price?

8/1/2013
"Software-defined" and "converged" are the flavors of the day, but companies might be better off spending their data center dollars on cold, hard, ultra-fast gear.
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SSD Fears Remedied By SAS, Flash

5/13/2013
The performance of solid-state drives (SSDs) has been limited by SAS interface capacity, but 12G SAS and enhanced flash promise to address those issues.
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