Intel’s been having a tough go of it lately with some of their silicon. First their Atom SoCs were causing some Cisco gear to brick back in February. Now comes this news of issues with HyperThreading on Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs. This seems limited to a relatively specific workloads, but has a wide range of effected processors. Most desktop CPUs in the last couple years, and recent Xeon E3s are subject to the error.
Gridbusters Made Me a YouTube Star
Howard Marks of DeepStorage writes: A couple of years ago I pitched this idea to a vendor who’s CTO thought it was a great idea but they then hired a new VP of Marketing who wanted to maintain a more professional image and put the kibosh on the project. I pitched the idea to my […]
Separating Storage Startups From Upstarts
Howard Marks writes at Network Computing: Most technology buyers have a pretty binary view of their vendors. They see established market leaders such as EMC, HP and Cisco and a vast sea of startups. While it used to be true that no one ever got fired for buying IBM, it’s clear to me — at […]
The Myth Of The Supersonic Disk Drive
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: The idea that disk drives haven’t gotten faster than 15K RPM because it would mean disks would have to become supersonic isn’t true. What’s the real reason? Howard tackles the myth of hard disks hitting Mach 1. Because the last thing you want from your data is a […]
Seagate Inks Deal To Acquire Xyratex
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: Disk drive giant aims to move into the more profitable storage systems market with $374 million acquisition. January is acquisition season for companies. I don’t think this will be the last time we see a storage company being bought in the first quarter of 2014. Read more at: […]
Scale-Out Storage For Hyper-V
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: This is the second post examining products I saw at Storage Field Day 4. held earlier this month. In my first post, I focused on Overland Storage’s SnapScale. While SnapScale is as conventional as a scale-out storage system can be, Gridstore’s eponymous product not only uses an innovative […]
Overland Storage SnapScale Scales Out But Falls Short
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: More than a year ago, I wrote that I have seen the future of solid-state storage and it is scale-out. If the vendors that presented at Storage Field Day 4 earlier this month are any indication, scale-out isn’t just the future of solid-state storage, but storage in general. […]
Disk Drive Failure: An Unavoidable Reality
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: The folks at Backblaze, the online backup service that’s probably as well known for its ultra-low cost storage pods as it is for its core business, recently released some data based on its experience with more than 25,000 disk drives. As anyone who read the Google and Carnegie […]
I Guess I am A Big Shot — Storage Field Day Edition
Howard Marks of DeepStorage.net writes: “Influencer” events that Stephen Foskett and his minions at Gestalt IT put on a dozen or so times a year. Basically Stephen brings a dozen bloggers, analysts and other slightly socialized geeks from around the world together to get pitched by a series of IT vendors. Most of the events […]
Coho Applies SDN To Scale-Out Storage
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: Startup Coho Data uses an integrated OpenFlow controller to reduce the latency associated with traditional scale-out storage designs. You know you’ve got a truly disruptive technology on your hands when a company not even in your field can apply the principles to their product line and do something […]