by Robin Harris | Monday, May 23, 2011 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A new media adventure StorageMojo is decamping to Silicon Valley tomorrow. On Thursday I’ll be doing my first webinar – ever – with Dan Leary of Nimble Storage on the topic Not Just a Flash in the Pan: Proven Strategies for Successful SSD Deployment...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Architecture, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
JIm Gray’s comment that disk is the new tape is truer today than it was 8 years ago. We’ve been adding caches, striping disks, modifying applications and performing other unnatural acts to both reduce and accommodate random reads and writes to disk. Flash...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Architecture, Backup, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forget the flame wars over moving window versus fixed block de-duplication. A recent paper, A Study of Practical Deduplication (pdf) from William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research and Dutch T. Meyer of the University of British Columbia found that whole file...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 11, 2011 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It sounds unlikely: technology that makes MLC flash as reliable and long-lived as more expensive SLC? Right! Or even better: make 3 bit per cell flash equivalent to 2 bit MLC? What are these guys smoking? Whatever it is, I’d like to try some myself. Because it...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It isn’t about the capacity. It’s the performance. I few weeks ago I asked StorageMojo readers to help out Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm. They did, and Jim got some surprising results. Now that I have finished interviewing...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 24, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Talked to a company last week whose cloud app handles several billion transactions per month on a cluster. Sounds like SSDs could help them but how? In a paper from the latest 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’11) researchers...
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