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Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month
[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading
Posted in Clustered storage, Ethernet, File Storage, SSD storage, Storage drive, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged Avere FXT 3500, Chart of the month, Data ONTAP 8.1, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMC Isilon S200, NetApp, NetApp C-mode, NetApp FAS6240, NFS ops/sec, Scale out NAS, Scale-out storage performance, SPECsfs2008, SSD
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Intel acquires InfiniBand fabric technology from Qlogic
Intel announced today that they are going to acquire the InfiniBand (IB) fabric technology business from Qlogic. From many analyst’s perspective, IB is one of the only technologies out there that can efficiently interconnect a cluster of commodity servers into … Continue reading
Posted in Clustered storage, Distributed computing, Ethernet, Infiniband, Information economy, Networking, RDMA, RoCE, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points
Tagged 10GBE, BIGData, EMC Isilon, ExaFLOP computing, Flextronics, Hadoop, HDFS, HPC, IB EDR, IB QDR, IBTA, Intel, IPoIB, Melanox, OpenFabrics Alliance, Qlogic, supercomputing clusters, Voltaire
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Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month
[As promised, I am trying to get up-to-date on my performance charts from our monthly newsletters. This one brings us current up through November.] The above chart plots Storage Performance Council SPC-1 IOPS against spindle count. On this chart, we have … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, FC, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged 3PAR, Chart of the month, HDS, HDS VSP, HP, HP 3PAR V800, IBM, IBM SVC, IBM SVC 4.3, IBM SVC 5.1, IOPS, IOPs/Drive, SPC-1, Storage Performance Council
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Top 10 blog posts for 2011
Happy Holidays. I ranked my blog posts using a ratio of hits to post age and have identified with the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 (so far): Vsphere 5 storage enhancements – We discuss some of the more … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Cognitive computing, Data integrity, Ethernet, FC, FCoE, IBM SyNAPSE chip, MIT analog brain chip, SSD storage, System effectiveness
Tagged Analog synapse simulation, BlueArc, Cognitive computing, Data loss, HDS, IBM Research, Intel SSD, neuromorphic computing, OCZ SNIA, SyNAPSE chip, VMware, vSphere 5
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New wireless technology augmenting data center cabling
I read a report today in Technology Review about how Bouncing data would speed up data centers, which talked about using wireless technology and special ceiling tiles to create dedicated data links between servers. The wireless signal was in the 60Ghz … Continue reading
SSD news roundup
NexGen comes out of stealth NexGen Storage a local storage company came out of stealth today and is also generally available. Their storage system has been in beta since April 2011 and is in use by a number of customers … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Data QoS, Data reduction, Ethernet, SSD storage, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged DRAM storage, LaCie storage, NexGen Storage, OCZ, Solid Fire Storage, SSD storage, Thunderbolt IO, TLC SSDs, TMS
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Latest SPECsfs2008 benchmarks analysis, CIFS vs NFS corrected – chart of the month
We made a mistake in our last post discussing CIFS vs. NFS results using SPECsfs2008 benchmarks by including some storage systems that had SSDs in this analysis. All of our other per spindle/disk drive analyses exclude SSDs and NAND cache because they … Continue reading
Electro-human interface
There has been a lot of talk recently about neuromorphic computing (see IBM introduces SyNAPSE) and using Phase Change Memory for artificial neurons but there hasn’t been much discussion of ways to interface human’s or for that matter any life whatsoever to … Continue reading