Emulex – Evolution of the HBA
At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a...
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VEEAM Community Podcast #59 – SSD State Of The Union 2
Here’s a link to a podcast I did last week with my good friend Rick Vanover. It’s a discussion on SSD and where we stand today. With the wealth of SSD information around today, this podcast could...
View ArticlePrimary Storage De-duplication: Only for SSD Arrays?
I recently wrote an article for TechTarget that looked at the implementations of data de-duplication in primary storage arrays. One of the things that stood out for me was the lack of de-duplication...
View ArticleBooting from PCIe SSD – Do We Need It?
Texas Memory Systems have just announced that their RamSan-70 PCIe SSD cards can now be used as bootable devices. Currently support is restricted only to Linux operating systems with x86 64-bit...
View ArticleOptimising Storage Architectures for SSD
Last week I attended Hitachi’s 2012 Blogger Day. Aside from catching up with some old friends, we were presented with some NDA stuff which will see the light of day soon. In the meantime, I want to...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Solid State Arrays
In the first wave of solid-state storage arrays, we saw commodity style SSDs (solid state drives) being added to traditional storage arrays. This solution provided an incremental benefit in...
View ArticleXtremIO (aka Project X) – Where’s the Innovation? (Updated)
There have been a few interesting articles discussing EMC’s anticipated release of Project X, also known as their XtremIO acquisition from earlier this year. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus Data has a...
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Storage QoS – How Hard Can It Be?
Following up from yesterday’s post and the comments received, I thought it was worth considering how hard it would actually be to implement quality of service within a storage array. Almost all storage...
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Violin Memory acquires Gridiron Systems
Yesterday, Violin announced that they have acquired Gridiron Systems, a vendor of cache acceleration hardware and software. At the outset it may seem odd that an all-flash vendor would want to acquire...
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Manipulating the Message – The Art of Marketing
The last few weeks have seen a couple of important flash technology announcements. They are important as they bring two of the “Big 5/6″ storage vendors up to speed in a market that is already pretty...
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3PAR Continues to be HP Storage Cornerstone
This week HP announced their new all-flash array, the 3PAR StoreServ 7450. I’ll post separately on the details of the new platform, but for now, I’d like to discuss the strategy HP are taking compared...
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HP 3PAR 7450 All Flash Array
I mentioned in a previous post that I would delve a little deeper into what HP have done to optimise performance on the new 3PAR 7450. I was lucky to be able to catch up at the 3Par booth with...
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The Fall of STEC and Rise of Western Digital
In a news announcement yesterday, STEC Inc, makers of solid state flash drives (SSDs) announced a “merger” with (i.e. was acquired by) Western Digital, one of the leading hard disk drive manufacturers....
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Quick Thought: Gartner SSD Market Analysis
Chris Mellor did a quick write-up on some of the details in Gartner’s latest SSD market report. The document, entitled “Market Share Analysis: SSD Component and SSD-Based Appliances, Worldwide, 2012″...
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Quick View: Micro SAS SSD
sTec have just posted a press release on their new Micro SAS SSD devices,which use the 1.8″ form factor. There are two models, the s842, which comes in 200 & 400GB capacities and the s846, with...
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SolidFire Update: New Products and Review
Last week SolidFire Inc announced the release of the latest evolution of their all-flash storage platform, the SF9010. This new system uses 960GB 2.5″ using the same 1U form factor as previous models,...
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ScaleIO, EMC’s New Baby
Keeping up the theme of innovation in storage (yes, it exists, you just have to look), earlier this week I had a chat to one of the UK folks at ScaleIO, the startup now acquired by EMC. ScaleIO are a...
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Storage IPO Season – Violin Memory and Pure Storage
It has emerged that both Violin Memory Inc and Pure Storage Inc are on the verge of initial public offerings, based on news articles last week. Chris Mellor reports that Violin have filed for IPO,...
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EMC Megalaunch – Speeding to Lead Balloon
It’s difficult to know where to start with EMC’s “Megalaunch”, broadcast for 24 hours yesterday, but let’s split it into two; the hyperbole and the actual product announcements. With reference to Happy...
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Acquisitions Continue to Drive Storage Flash Market
This week we have seen yet another brace of storage vendor acquisitions – and it’s only Tuesday. As announced today, Whiptail Inc are to be acquired by Cisco as technology to be integrated into their...
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