by Robin Harris | Monday, May 2, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Goodbye, old bottleneck StorageMojo has often asked buyers to focus on latency rather than IOPS thanks to SSDs making IOPS cheap and plentiful. This naturally leads to a focus on I/O stack latency, which multiple vendors are attacking. But what are the implications of...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 22, 2016 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
I did NAB a little differently this year: attended on Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the floor exhibits. Definitely easier, although many of the execs left Wednesday. But that wasn’t a surprise. Here’s what did surprise me: EMC seemed to have...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 5, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
What is Software Defined Memory? A converged memory and storage architecture that enables applications to access storage as if it was memory and memory as if it was storage Unlike most of the software defined x menagerie, SDM isn’t simply another layer that...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 1, 2016 | Architecture, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I opined recently on ZDNet that I expected Optane SSDs would come out at $2/GB. Josh Goldenhar of Excelero had a thoughtful rejoinder: . . . I think Octane will be more expensive. You mentioned $0.20/GB for flash – but I think that’s for SATA flash or consumer...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | Architecture, Backup, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, Price Lists, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
On March 29, 2006, StorageMojo.com published its first posts to universal indifference. The indifference didn’t last long: the second week of StorageMojo’s existence I published 25x Data Compression Made Simple. The post was /.’d and the vituperation...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 21, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Intel is promising availability of 3D Xpoint non-volatile memory (NVM) this year, at least in their Optane SSDs. But Xpoint DIMMS are coming soon, and neither will give you anything close to 1,000x performance boost. In a recent paper, NOVA: A Log-structured File...
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