Monday, April 29th, 2013 April 2013 News letter
Welcome to the April 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition includes more on nand flash SSD, after all its not if, rather when, where, why, with what along with how much SSD is in your future. Also more on ...
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 A couple of weeks ago I attended the spring 2013 Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando Florida. Talking with SNIA Chairman Wayne Adams and SNIA Director Leo Legar this was the 28th edition of the US SNW (two shows a year), plus the international ones. While ...
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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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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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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the third in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here and second post here) looking at what else EMC announced today in addition to an enhanced VMAX 10K and dispelling the myth that large storage arrays are dead (or at least for now).
In addition to the ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the second in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here) looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates mean.
Thus on January 14 2013 it is time for a new EMC Virtual Matrix (VMAX) model ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the first in a multi-part series of posts looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates means.
EMC has announced an upgrade, refresh or new version of their previously announced Virtual matrix (VMAX) 10,000 (10K), part ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012 An industry trends and perspective..
Are large storage arrays dead at the hands of SSD? Short answer NO not yet.
There is still a place for traditional storage arrays or appliances particular those with extensive features, functionality and reliability availability serviceability (RAS). In other words, there is still a place for large ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012 This follows the first of a two-part series on my latest experiences with Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD's) and Solid State Devices (SSD's). In my ongoing last momentus moment post I discussed what I have done with HHDD's and setting the stage for expanded SSD use. I have the newer ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012 This is the first of a two part series on my latest experiences with HHDD and SSD's
About two years ago I wanted to start installing solid state devices (SSD's) into my workstations and laptops. Like many others, I found the expensive price for the limited capacity gains of the then ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 This is the second of a two-part post about why storage arrays and appliances with SSD drives can be a good idea, here is link to the first post.
So again, why would putting drive form factors SSDs be a bad idea for existing storage systems, arrays and appliances?
Benefits of ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 This is the first of a two-part series, you can read part II here.
Robin Harris (aka @storagemojo) recently in a blog post asks a question and thinks solid state devices (SSDs) using SAS or SATA interface in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) form factors are a bad idea ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the future only has room for SSD with the current flavor de jour being nand flash (both ...
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Monday, February 6th, 2012 This is the second of a two part series pertaining to EMC VFCache, you can read the first part here.
In this part of the series, lets look at some common questions along with comments and perspectives.
Common questions, answers, comments and perspectives:
Why would EMC not just go into the same market space and ...
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