by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | Off-Topic |
There’s a new tab in the StorageMojo navbar: Careers. It’s a new service for readers and the storage industry. Like StorageMojo it is focused on emerging companies, markets, products and technologies – and the people who make them happen. And like...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 27, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A post last month in ACM’s Queue raised a disturbing point around block-level deduplication in flash SSDs: it could hose your file system. De-dup is a Good Thing, right? Researchers found that at least 1 Sandforce SSD controller – the SF1200 – does...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IT pros are always skeptical about new technology. Is it surprising that flash SSD’s are getting the gimlet eye? The big worry seems to be endurance. Nobody wants to buy an expensive SSD and have it fail after a year on the job. But IT infrastructures are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Enterprise, Management, Security & Public Policy |
Wild. Cisco, with the aid of pliable government officials – do corporations know any other kind? – had a guy arrested and held in jail for 28 days in Vancouver, BC. He was arrested as he testified at a special hearing for the case! Cuff ’em, Danno...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I was surprised by the number of questions at last week’s webinar – many more than we could get to – so I’m answering a few here. Performance Q: Can Robin talk about performance and how does flash help solve I/O bottleneck? NAND flash is very...
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