3Leaf’s virtual I/O system

by | Sunday, April 29, 2007 | Enterprise, SAN, FC | 5 comments

First there was data center consolidation, then server, then storage and now . . . I/O consolidation. Stealth no more 3Leaf is exiting stealth mode, officially, tomorrow, but they put up their new website over the weekend, so they’re fair game. Incorporated with...

Cool stuff at SNW

by | Thursday, April 26, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech | 10 comments

NAB made a big impression on me I’ve been putting off writing about SNW because I’ve been busy. I still am. But the successful procrastinator has to use every excuse possible, and writing about SNW is my last one. Paul Calleja Paul is responsible for...

New ZFS performance numbers

by | Monday, April 23, 2007 | Future Tech | 7 comments

My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to Mark Round’s site with new ZFS performance numbers. Thanks to Storage Forum for the link that caught Walter’s eye. Here’s some storage eye-candy The performance comparison is...

Life is a sequential access workload

by | Thursday, April 19, 2007 | Future Tech | 1 comment

I saw the future at NAB No, it isn’t a storage company. Or a system company. It is a workload. The dominant storage workload of the 21st century. Large file sizes, bandwidth intensive, sequential reads and writes. What about OLTP, small random reads and writes?...