Chris Mellor over at the Register put an interview online with NetApp CEO Tom Georgens. To quote from the Register piece: He is dismissive of multi-level tiering, saying: “The simple fact of the matter is, tiering is a way to manage migration of data between Fibre Channel-based systems and … [Read more...]
Extreme Tiered Storage: Flash, Disk, and Cloud
February 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
My presence at Storage Expo NL may have been cursed, but my presentation went off without a hitch thanks to the creativity and flexibility of the VNU staff and Expo volunteers like Ilja Coolen. In my session, I talked about the shortcomings of traditional tiered storage as a way to advance the Noble … [Read more...]
EMC’s FAST, take 1. Action!
December 10, 2009 by 1 Comment
As you might have read in my earlier blog post, EMC has announced the release of the first version of their product called “Fully Automated Storage Tiering” or in short “FAST”. Now, to describe the purpose of this technology in a very simple form, we are talking about the … [Read more...]
Can and when will SSDs + SATA replace FC/SAS?
October 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Simon Seagrave (http://www.techhead.co.uk/) asked, “How long do you think it’ll be before SSD will overtake SCSI as primary tier 1 SAN storage? Giving a new SSD and SATA tiered mix.” Short answer: Yes, it will be SSDs + SAS and within 2 years. The real quesion is when 15K RPM … [Read more...]