by Robin Harris | Friday, December 13, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Future Tech |
WD is sampling SMR – Shingled Magnetic Recording – disk drives to several cloud vendors including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Seagate announced sales of a million SMR drives in September. HGST likely has a similar program under way. SMR in a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 21, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Seagate is proposing to turn drives into object-based storage servers in massively parallel configurations. They call this vision the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Today’s scale out infrastructures are universally object based, but the legacy...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Block I/O has been a stalwart of SCSI, IDE and SATA interfaces for over 30 years. But sharing those devices hasn’t been easy and certainly has only rarely, if ever, made it into enterprise production systems. That’s why we have expensive Fibre Channel SANs...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise |
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they’ve never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise, Information Management, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
There are years where new ideas and concepts explode. And there are years of consolidation. 2013 will be the latter. The storage industry has a lot to digest. Here are some of the issues. ReRAM Would-be vendors of the enterprise NAND flash replacement technology,...
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