Skyera’s 99¢ store
Interesting companies at this year's Flash Memory Summit, but the winner of the StorageMojo BuzzGen award is Skyera. That there's little detail on their system may have helped: attendees get to fantasize about the putative magic under the covers. Founded by PhD...
IBM buys Texas Memory Systems
IBM has purchased the oldest and most respected high-end SSD builder in the country: Texas Memory Systems. Founder and CEO Holly Frost has led the company for 34 years. No word on price, but I expect it was not stratospheric. Before the advent of flash memory, the SSD...
Automating remote system support
"Call home" support has been standard in large arrays for 15 years. But Nimble Storage has kicked it up a notch with their advanced telemetry data from installed systems. It gives new meaning to the term "after-sale support." Talk to me Their system gathers...
On the road again
StorageMojo's crack analyst team is hitting the road: Flash Memory Summit; Intel Developer Forum; and SNIA's Storage Developer Conference. Flash Memory Summit I'll be chairing a tutorial at the Flash Memory Summit on Thursday morning, August 23rd. Topics include:...
The post-RAID era begins
The post-RAID (noRAID) era has begun. While RAID arrays aren't going away, the growth is elsewhere, and corporate investment follows growth. Why now? There are now architecturally superior alternatives to RAID that are lower cost. But you could argue that the...
F5100 array internals
The Sun Oracle F5100 flash-DIMM array joined Violin Memory's flash array as the storage on the lowest latency TPC-C benchmarks (see The SSD write cliff in real life for that data). Alert reader KD Mann pointed out that the F5100's flash DIMMs are simply ". . . a SATA...
Time in
It was a break, not a vacation. I'm planning one of the latter this week in San Diego. If there's someone in the SD neighborhood I should talk to, please comment. Otherwise I'll be lounging in the cool ocean breezes, iced drink in hand. Love the desert, and trips to...
Time out
After more than 6 years of relatively steady writing, I'm taking a break. No cell phone. No computer. No Internet. Until June 25th. There will be comment moderation, so please comment subject to the usual "Courteous comments welcome, of course" proviso. The...
Hot-swap in a non-SSD flash array
As a movie buff I'm surprised by people who say something like "I saw The Godfather when it came out, so I don't need to see it again." One of the pleasures of re-watching a movie is seeing how memory of the movie differs from the movie itself: what did memory change,...
The SSD write cliff in real life
Flash drives are known to have latency issues. The requirement to erase and program large blocks - even for small writes - means that if the drive runs out of free blocks a 50+ ms delay is possible while garbage collection works to provide one. Since free blocks are...
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