by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Is the data center doomed? Or just the IT industry? That’s what the following article, by Steve Denegri – star industry financial analyst – asks. Steve’s thesis: the IT industry is entering a period of energy scarcity that, in other industries,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 20, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
It isn’t clear how serious the enterprise storage vendors and and their customers are about reducing energy consumption. A server may have 4-8 cores, consuming 50 W when idle, attached to 8, 16 or even 24 drives each pulling 8 W at idle. High end it drives,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A new Usenix paper looks at NAND flash SSD performance. From a team at Microsoft Research and the University of Wisconsin, including Ted Wobber who worked on last year’s A Design for High-Performance Flash Disks [see Flash chance for the StorageMojo take on that...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It’s all over but the shouting The scoop: the gap between notebook SSD promise and performance has been growing steadily. Now a review in Tom’s Hardware puts the final nail in the coffin. The title says it all: The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
The parallel computing/manycore initiatives may be missing the point. The challenge of manycore computing is burn up as many CPU cycles as possible doing things that we don’t do today because the computational cost is too great. Making existing apps go faster is...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Future Tech |
Gary Orenstein has published a podcast of a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago about cloud computing. Cloudy days on the hype cycle Cloud computing and storage is still climbing the hype cycle. Remember client-server computing? It was going to change the world....
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