by Robin Harris | Friday, June 27, 2014 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
NVRAM maker Crossbar’s co-founder and professor at U Michigan Wei Lu has published a paper describing a never-before-seen phenomena: metal nanoparticles moving in a solid. Crossbar is pushing RRAM – Resistance RAM – but there is a problem with most...
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, March 31, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
The transition to a storage-centric world continues. Billions of internet devices are driving exponential scale-up challenges. A3Cube’s Massively Parallel Data Processor (MPDP) may be the most comprehensive response yet to that reality. It makes less and less...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 27, 2014 | Architecture, Future Tech |
It’s been a rule of thumb for the last 30+ years that any functionality implemented in hardware will surely migrate to software. But that is starting to change. At the beginning of a new application – say RAID controllers – the volumes are low and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 24, 2014 | Future Tech |
StorageMojo isn’t done reviewing papers, but this post is about the bigger picture that emerged from the papers and presentations. Perhaps this is pattern-finding gone mad – intuition – but hey! – perhaps not. Here are the bones of trends...
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