by Robin Harris | Monday, July 17, 2017 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
StorageMojo’s crack analyst team will be attending next months Flash Memory Summit. The dates are August 8-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Wasn’t able to attend last year, but the 2015 summit was the best storage show I’d seen in years....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 11, 2017 | Future Tech, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
With the news that Toshiba has developed 3D quad-level cell flash with 768Gb die capacity, I’m reminded of the moving target problem. This is a problem whenever a new technology seeks to carve out a piece of an existing technology’s market. Typically, a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 19, 2017 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Adapting to NVRAM is going to be a lengthy process. This was pointed out by a recent paper. More on that later. Thankfully, Intel wildly pre-announced 3D XPoint. That has spurred OS and application vendors to consider how it might affect their products. As we saw with...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 12, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on the architectural issues. For example, in a recent paper, XFabric: A...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SAN, FC, Virtualization |
Lots of energy around the concept of Rack Scale Design (Intel’s nomenclature) in systems design these days. Instead of depositing a cpu, memory, I/O, and storage on a single motherboard, why not have a rack of each, interconnected over a high-bandwidth,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 8, 2017 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Virtualization |
The technology wheel is turning again. Yesterday it was converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Tomorrow it’s composable infrastructure. Check out Liqid a software-and-some-hardware company that I met at NAB. The software – Element – enables you...
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