by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The flooding-induced disk drive drought is over, except for some channel filling, but the last year’s drive vendor profitability may be the last good news they see for years. Trends are conspiring against disk drive vendors. 1st, worldwide PC sales are slowing...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Disk, SAN, FC |
Over the years StorageMojo has seen several architectures that just seemed smart, but whose market potential was blighted by management and funding issues. Violin Memory was one. Coraid was another. In both cases a new CEO – at Coraid, Kevin Brown – has...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Over 3 years ago StorageMojo saw that Violin Memory was “. . . on the winning architectural track.” Well, it took a lot of time and money, but Violin is making good on that early promise. StorageMojo’s enthusiasm was kindled by Violin’s unique...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 19, 2012 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If SSDs are so great, shouldn’t we see the results in TPC-C benchmarks? They are, and we do. But there are some surprises. Cost Looking at the TPC-C top 10 performance results showed the dramatic impact SSDs have had on the cost per thousand transactions (tpmC)....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
Deduplication has been accepted as an enterprise-class compression technology. Is it time for data compression to be a standard feature of primary storage? I’ve been doing some work for Nimble Storage a cool Valley startup. Talking to co-founder Varun Mehta, he...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 24, 2010 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A hybrid of SSD and hard drive that gives you the best of both worlds. That’s the theory anyway. But I won’t keep you in suspense: I think Seagate has hit a home run with their new hybrid XT architecture. Specs Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB...
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