3D flash in 2016
Volume shipments of 3D NAND flash could arrive in 2016, if Toshiba's and SanDisk's plans bear fruit. Fab 5 at their Yokkaichi campus is expected to install a 3D pilot line in 2H15. The project is funded jointly with SanDisk. Samsung started sampling 128Gb, 24 layer,...
“The more fundamental requirement”
I long ago concluded that storage is the most difficult problem in information technology because entropy is always working to destroy our data. But then I came across this from a speech given by British mathematician, computer theorist and pioneer and Bletchley Park...
Is AWS rational?
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn't care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things, like...
EMC goes all in with DSSD
The drama with XtremIO's delays only whetted EMC's appetite for more drama. Or the hot breath of competition and declining VMAX sales. Let's go with the latter. StorageMojo has been following DSSD for some time. The core of the Sun ZFS team, Jeff Bonwick and Bill...
Glacier redux
Reactions to the post on Amazon's Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening - with one savvy observation that I wish I'd made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert) and received 40+ comments. Alternate ideas A number of folks...
XtremIO’s slow start
The Seeking Alpha sometimes garbled transcript of EMC's Q1 earnings call has some surprising revelations about XtremIO and EMC's flash business. In its first full quarter general availability, XtremIO have continued its very strong momentum. We began shipping our 20...
Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL
Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? Long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for 1¢/GB while maintaining several copies across geographies. Pretty amazing. Less amazing now that disk prices are...
IBM’s Q1 storage pain – amputation imminent
When my children were little and cried due to a scraped knee, I would examine it gravely and then say: "This looks bad! Time to amputate!" That quieted them right down and, to my relief, they've grown up to be functional human beings working - of all things - in high...
EMC gets the Cisco Whiptail lash
We knew this moment would come. According to William Blair, a British broker, their data networking and storage tracker (as quoted by the most excellent Chris Mellor in The Reg) sees that Despite Cisco’s public commentary about not wanting to leverage its Whiptail...
EMC up to old tricks
EMC World is in Las Vegas this year, a short drive from the StorageMojo Global HQ. Requested a press pass in February. No response. Repeated request a couple of weeks ago and got this answer: At this time the press and analyst programs are at full capacity and we are...
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