F5100 array internals

The Sun Oracle F5100 flash-DIMM array joined Violin Memory’s flash array as the storage on the lowest latency TPC-C benchmarks (see The SSD write cliff in real life for that data). Alert reader KD Mann pointed out that the F5100’s flash DIMMs are simply...

Time in

It was a break, not a vacation. I’m planning one of the latter this week in San Diego. If there’s someone in the SD neighborhood I should talk to, please comment. Otherwise I’ll be lounging in the cool ocean breezes, iced drink in hand. Love the...

Time out

After more than 6 years of relatively steady writing, I’m taking a break. No cell phone. No computer. No Internet. Until June 25th. There will be comment moderation, so please comment subject to the usual “Courteous comments welcome, of course”...