by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure’s Matt Kixmoeller saw the Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea post and, unsurprisingly, responded. The SSD is Key to Economic Flash Arrays is a good post and I urge interested readers to check it out. Pure has a stellar team with deep experience. Their views...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Another StorageMojo Best paper, The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, presented at this year’s FAST ’12 conference, quantifies flash’s declining reliability, endurance, and performance as density increases. Researchers Laura M. Grupp and Steven...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 27, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
FAST – File and Storage Technology – is a must-see conference for StorageMojo, and I’ll be reviewing several Best Papers from FAST ’12 . While most emerging technology is developed in private company labs, FAST is where much of the first...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 19, 2012 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If SSDs are so great, shouldn’t we see the results in TPC-C benchmarks? They are, and we do. But there are some surprises. Cost Looking at the TPC-C top 10 performance results showed the dramatic impact SSDs have had on the cost per thousand transactions (tpmC)....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
EMC’s Chuck Hollis blogged about The Vendor Beating a couple of months ago. The unspoken question in the post is “how do we understand what customers are telling us?” He writes As an employee of a large IT vendor, I’ve been at the receiving end...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
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