by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 13, 2015 | Architecture, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I’m at the Flash Memory Summit this week. Two observations, one short and one long. Short first. FMS is much larger than last year. Haven’t seen numbers, but the huge exhibit floor looks like a first rank storage show. VMworld has been a top storage show,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
DSSD, the Valley startup acquired by EMC last year (see EMC goes all in with DSSD) is continuing to hire at an accelerating rate. Informed sources put the current DSSD team at 160 heads with plans to grow it to 800 over the next year. This is a program in a hurry....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
StorageMojo has been writing about latency and flash arrays for years (see The SSD write cliff in real life), with a focus on data from the TPC-C and SPC-1 benchmarks. The folks at Violin Memory asked me to create a Video White Paper to discuss the problem in a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A couple of weeks ago StorageMojo learned that a VMAX 20k could support up to 2400 3TB drives, it can only address ≈2PB. Where did the remaining 5 petabytes go? Some theories were advanced in the comments, and I spoke to other people about the mystery. No one would...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage, SAN, FC |
Who would have thought, at this late date, that an upstart would appear to challenge high-end EMC, NetApp, HDS and IBM arrays with a fundamentally superior product. But when you don’t have an installed base – and a cash cow – to protect, you can go...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
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