by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 30, 2014 | Disk, Enterprise |
This is a StorageMojo summary of technical research. The effect of temperature on disk drives: shorten their life or not? Most studies say no – including a new one – but Microsoft/UVA researchers seem to disagree. Backblaze published a detailed blog post...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Volume shipments of 3D NAND flash could arrive in 2016, if Toshiba’s and SanDisk’s plans bear fruit. Fab 5 at their Yokkaichi campus is expected to install a 3D pilot line in 2H15. The project is funded jointly with SanDisk. Samsung started sampling 128Gb,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 5, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, Object storage, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The drama with XtremIO’s delays only whetted EMC’s appetite for more drama. Or the hot breath of competition and declining VMAX sales. Let’s go with the latter. StorageMojo has been following DSSD for some time. The core of the Sun ZFS team, Jeff...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 28, 2014 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Seeking Alpha sometimes garbled transcript of EMC’s Q1 earnings call has some surprising revelations about XtremIO and EMC’s flash business. In its first full quarter general availability, XtremIO have continued its very strong momentum. We began...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 17, 2014 | Enterprise, Marketing |
When my children were little and cried due to a scraped knee, I would examine it gravely and then say: “This looks bad! Time to amputate!” That quieted them right down and, to my relief, they’ve grown up to be functional human beings working –...
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