by Robin Harris | Friday, April 1, 2016 | Architecture, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I opined recently on ZDNet that I expected Optane SSDs would come out at $2/GB. Josh Goldenhar of Excelero had a thoughtful rejoinder: . . . I think Octane will be more expensive. You mentioned $0.20/GB for flash – but I think that’s for SATA flash or consumer...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Price Lists, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
On March 29, 2006, StorageMojo.com published its first posts to universal indifference. The indifference didn’t last long: the second week of StorageMojo’s existence I published 25x Data Compression Made Simple. The post was /.’d and the vituperation...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
You have a data center full of Windows and Linux servers running your key applications. How do you migrate them to the cloud; or, at the very least, enable cloud-based disaster recovery? That’s the question CloudVelox is trying to answer. Their software enables...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 21, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Intel is promising availability of 3D Xpoint non-volatile memory (NVM) this year, at least in their Optane SSDs. But Xpoint DIMMS are coming soon, and neither will give you anything close to 1,000x performance boost. In a recent paper, NOVA: A Log-structured File...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 11, 2016 | Off-Topic |
I’ve been a fan of RRAM – resistive random access memory – for years. It is much superior to NAND flash as a storage medium, except for cost, density and industry production capacity. Hey, you can’t have everything! But Crossbar announced today...
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