Julian Wood of WoodITWork.com writes: Sure, flash is revolutionising array storage but its going to take time to replace spinning rust with flash and again it often comes down to cost. Purchasing an all flash array or even just a shelf of flash for your existing array is expensive and a large incremental jump when […]
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MCS, UltraDIMMs and memory IO, the new path ahead — part 2
Ray Lucchesi of RayOnStorage Blog comments: In part 1 (see previous post here), we discussed the underlying technology for SanDisk‘s UltraDIMMs based on Diablo Technologies MCS hardware and software. IBM will be shipping UltraDIMMs in their high end servers later this year as their new eXFlash. In this segment we will discuss what SanDisk has […]
Justin Warren on SolidFire
Justin Warren of Eigenmagic writes: Dave from SolidFire was impressive. He had a quiet confidence that comes from knowing exactly what he’s doing. He knows his own product very well, which he should, but he also knows a lot about competitor products, and the market in generally. He was able to talk about all of […]
SanDisk Announces Acquisition of Fusion-io
Chris Evans of Architecting IT writes: It has been widely reported and confirmed through a press release, that Fusion-io is to be acquired by SanDisk at a value of around $11.25 per share in cash with the deal expected to close this year. Assuming everything goes through, this closes a chapter on a flash storage […]
Justin Warren on EMC XtremIO
Justin Warren of Eigenmagic writes: XtremIO ‘X-bricks’ are dual-active controllers connected to 25 eMLC flash SSDs in a separate drive shelf. The logical path to the SSDs has two logical lookups: firstly its metadata (such as the ultimate location of the data block) and the data itself. Data (and metadata) is stored on the SSDs […]
Is Solidfire the Symmetrix of the cloud era?
Enrico Signoretti of Juku comments: EMC Symmetrix was introduced in 1990 (as a Mainframe storage) and it has quickly become one of the most successful enterprise Tier1 storage ever (Now the VMAX). It’s big (now supporting up to 3200 disks and 2048GB) but its architecture is outdated and so are its features. What was good […]
Hyper convergence for the rest of us? Scale Computing
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes: This is not the first time I write about Scale Computing but I met them again a couple of weeks ago (at #SFD5) and I think there are some updates about their technology and products that are worthwhile mentioning. Scale computing has been around since 2009. At the beginning it […]
Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
Keith Townsend of Virtualized Geek comments: The hyper-converged infrastructure has two completely different ends of the spectrum when it comes to potential end-users. An example of two different systems positioned at different markets is a comparison between Nutanix and Scale Computing. Nutanix has a lion’s share of the mind share for the hyper-converged market. For […]
PernixData FVP Introduces new features: In-Memory, NFS, Network compression and Topology awareness
Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization comments: New features has been announced by PernixData during SFD5 event. If you don’t know PernixData and their FVP technology you should check this post – PernixData FVP in my lab. In short, PernixData FVP Technology is using kernel module. It’s not a VM acceleration appliance. You just have to […]
X-IO and Hardware Defined Storage
eigenmagic comments: In a world that’s gone software-defined mad, X-IO are a refreshingly honest company seemingly devoid of hype. They make storage hardware, and specialised hardware at that. For the software-defined cheer-squad, this might sound like madness, but it’s not. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that hardware can be an exciting area to work in. […]