SNIA reprise online

by Robin Harris on Tuesday, 16 September, 2008

I gave a keynote at the last SNIA Symposium about the impact of 5 new datacenter technologies:

  • 2.5″ drives
  • flash SSDs
  • guaranteed uptime storage
  • 10 gigE
  • Cloud storage

Then last week I gave a reprise of the presentation to the SNIA end-user council.

Whelming demand
In response to overwhelming demand – 2 requests (I’m easily overwhelmed) – here is the presentation and a recording of the session. You’ve been warned.

You can download the slides (0.5 MB pdf) and now the audio (15 MB mp3).

Update: A commenter suggested a smaller file so I’ve replaced the 7 MB pdf with a 0.5 MB version. Not as sharp or clear, but the content is there – faster! FWIW, the audio file is heavily compressed and you may notice some compression artifacts. End update.

The StorageMojo take
I’ve never gotten into the podcast thing, but then I no longer commute 45 minutes a day.

EMC guys will certainly want to blow an hour listening to my comments on the Hopkinton giant. Make a pitcher of 3-2-1 Margaritas, put your feet up, and “go to work” courtesy of StorageMojo.

Courteous comments welcome, of course.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

M.S. Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 at 2:35 am

Sometimes availability has to come first to create demand… ;-)

Joe S Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at 6:23 am

That is the best presentation I haven’t seen!

Aaron deMello Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at 10:12 am

Great presentation. The slide deck is a bloated beast at 7MB and is a waste of bandwidth. With a bit of compression on the images, you’d get it down to 500k or so. Thanks for the insight, nice commentary as always.

Joe Kraska Saturday, 20 September, 2008 at 7:57 am

I’m interested to hear your take on FCoE. I was at VMWorld and asking some of hte Qlogic folks about their opinion about “iSCSI vs FCoE”. They indicated they didn’t think it was a versus thing, and that FCoE’s primary use case would be for legacy migration for preexisting fiber channel SANs that will be connected to new servers with 10GE.

However: I’m curious, terribly curious, about native FCoE versus native iSCSI storage solutions, and how they will compare on 10GE. Will there /really/ be that much of an FCoE latency advantage and what will the real world performance impact of that be?

C//

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