by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Disk |
It didn’t win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 – IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | Enterprise |
NetApp has formally changed its name from Network Appliance Inc to NetApp Inc. The name change is part of a larger effort to raise their awareness among what they call the Storage 5000 – the 5000 largest storage customers worldwide. I’m in NYC today and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
How flash is really going to affect the storage industry is becoming clear. The short take: not as big a deal as flash vendors hoped. The longer take: There won’t be much of a mid-range flash market; instead we’ll see either costly fast flash or cheap slow...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2008 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I ran into Woody Hutsell, EVP at Texas Memory Systems, last week. He graciously agreed to a talk on camera about their experience with flash and DRAM-based solid state storage. TMS sells both: a DRAM-based SSD with multiple FC and Infiniband ports; and a 2 TB flash...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2008 | Enterprise |
A week after writing What’s with Isilon they announced revised results for several past quarters. In a long and boring press release the company discussed the impact. The money quote: he Company estimates that $7.0 million of the approximately $67.4 million of...
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