by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Sometimes in the midst of the endless tweaking needed to maximize storage performance one just wants to say “screw it! Put everything in RAM!” And that’s just what RAMCloud does. Disk is the new tape, flash the new disk, DRAM the new flash. RAMCloud...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 12, 2011 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
VMworld is the best storage show I’ve seen in years. VMware’s severe storage problems leave users hungry for solutions – and your friendly neighborhood storage industry is happy to oblige. It’s almost as if VMware were owned by a storage...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 29, 2011 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Pure Storage, a well-funded ($55M) valley startup, came out of hiding last week with a startling claim: enterprise flash that is cheaper1,2,3 than disk. 1Cheaper after compressing and deduping the data. 2Cheaper after using almost all the flash capacity, which you...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 27, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A post last month in ACM’s Queue raised a disturbing point around block-level deduplication in flash SSDs: it could hose your file system. De-dup is a Good Thing, right? Researchers found that at least 1 Sandforce SSD controller – the SF1200 – does...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 20, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
IT pros are always skeptical about new technology. Is it surprising that flash SSD’s are getting the gimlet eye? The big worry seems to be endurance. Nobody wants to buy an expensive SSD and have it fail after a year on the job. But IT infrastructures are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I was surprised by the number of questions at last week’s webinar – many more than we could get to – so I’m answering a few here. Performance Q: Can Robin talk about performance and how does flash help solve I/O bottleneck? NAND flash is very...
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