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When is a feature a bug?

by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 1 comment

Ten years ago in Enterprise IT: the elephant’s graveyard I wrote about the upmarket trap: Engineering and marketing find it easy to justify fun new technology since a 10% goodness increase on a $500,000 machine is worth $50,000, while on a $1,000 machine it is...

Frisky Gen-Z’s to battle boomer Intel

by Robin Harris | Monday, October 24, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 0 comments

The internalization of storage is spawning another war – this time in memory interconnects. From Anandtech: This week sees the launch of the Gen-Z Consortium, featuring names such as ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Xilinx, with the...

ClearSky: object storage at enterprise block speed

by Robin Harris | Monday, October 17, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 4 comments

Can object storage ever be as fast as block storage? It turns out the answer is yes. And we already know how to do it. I was speaking to the CTO of ClearSky Data, Laz Vekiarides, about their block storage system for enterprise applications. They offer . . . a Global...

Everspin’s MRAM IPO

by Robin Harris | Monday, October 10, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 2 comments

Everspin has filed for their IPO. They’re looking to raise $40 million from the public market. They’ve been shipping product for over 10 years, so this is a real company, not a dream and a slide deck. Why MRAM? Everspin’s Magnetic RAM has a number of...

A look at Symbolic IO’s patents

by Robin Harris | Friday, July 22, 2016 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 2 comments

Maybe you saw the hype: Symbolic IO is the first computational defined storage solution solely focused on advanced computational algorithmic compute engine, which materializes and dematerializes data – effectively becoming the fastest, most dense, portable and secure,...

Bandwidth reduction for erasure coded storage

by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Object storage | 2 comments

In response to Building fast erasure coded storage, alert readers Petros Koutoupis and Ian F. Adams noted that advanced erasure coded object storage (AECOS) isn’t typically CPU limited. The real problem is network bandwidth. It turns out that the same team that...
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