Archive for the ‘database’ Category
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do?
A common question I run across is how many IOPS (IO Operations Per Second) can a storage device or system do or give.
The answer is or should be it depends.
This is the first of a two-part series looking at storage ...
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Friday, March 29th, 2013 March 2013 News letter
Welcome to the March 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update news letter including a new format and added content.
You can get access to this news letter via various social media venues (some are shown below) in addition to StorageIO web sites and subscriptions. ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the third (tying the posts together) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I is here (closer look ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at S3) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I is here (closer look at ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at EBS) in a three-part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part II is here (closer look at ...
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Monday, March 25th, 2013 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced global availability of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) optimized support for four extra Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instance types. The support enables optimized performance between standard and provisioned IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instances to meet different bandwidth or throughput needs (learn more about AWS ...
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013 Are you a marketing or public relations, press or analyst relations or social media expert and your email messages, notes, updates or requests get overlooked? Are you in the first paragraph or couple of sentences indicating who you are representing, what the info or request is about as well as what ...
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 Seagate (@Seagate) announced today that it reached a milestone of having shipped 2 Billion hard disk drives (HDD's), something that is round stores data that keeps growing. As part of their announcement, Seagate has a good info graphics and facts ...
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 Part one of this two-part post provided a summary of today's EMC (@EMCflash) announcement around XtremIO and renaming VFCache to XtremSF and associated software as XtremSW.
Synopsis of announcement
Product rollout and selective availability of the new all flash SSD array XtremIO
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Posted in announcement, Cloud, convergence, Data footprint and proliferation reduction, database, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, Performance and Capacity, perspective, post, server, ssd, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 EMC (@EMCflash) today announced some new, enhanced, renamed and a rebrand flash solid-state device (SSD) storage portfolio around theme of XtremIO. XtremIO was the startup company with a new all flash SSD storage array that EMC announced they were buying in May 2012. Since that announcement, Project ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013 Yesterday VCE and their proud parents announced revenues had reached an annual run rate of a billion dollars. Today VCE announced some new products along with enhancements to others.
Before going forward though, lets take go back for a moment to help set the stage to ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013 NetApp announced the other day a new all nand flash solid-state devices (SSD) storage system called the EF540 that is available now. The EF540 has something's new and cool, along with some things familiar, tried, true and proven.
What is new is that the EF540 is an ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 In the spirit of solid state devices (SSD) including DRAM and nand flash, not to mention emerging phase chance memory (PCM) among others that help to boost productivity and cut latency, here are a couple of quick notes and links.
Here are a some more pieces to have ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Sometimes what should be understood, or that is common sense or that you think everybody should know needs to be stated. After all, there could be somebody who does not know what some assume as common sense or what others know for various reasons. At ...
Posted in backup, BC and DR, big data, Cloud, Comment, convergence, Data protection, Data security, database, DCIM, Green IT, I/O Networking, IT Industry Activity, IT Infrastructure Topics, little data, metrics, perspective, post, server, ssd, Storage and Storage Management Tools, Storage Architecture and Access, tools, virtualization | 3 Comments »
