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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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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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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
Latest Microsoft ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) 1K to 5K mailbox performance results – chart of the month
Microsoft specifies two different metrics on sequential read rates for database backup activity in their Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) reports MB read/sec per database MB read/sec total per server Our problem with these metrics is that they don’t say … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, Ethernet, FC, Storage Backup, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged 1K-to-5Kmbx, Database backup performance, Dell PowerEdge R510, Email performance, ESRP, Exchange 2010, Exchange performance, Exchange Solution Reviewed Program, Fujitsu ETERNUS JX40, HP E5700
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Is FC dead?!
Was at the Pacific Crest/Mosaic annual conference cocktail hour last night surrounded by a bunch of iSCSI/NAS storage vendors and they made the statement that FC is dead. Apparently, 40GbE is just around the corner and 10GbE cards have started … Continue reading
SolidFire supplies scale-out SSD storage for cloud service providers
I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage. They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system. Apparently a portion of their … Continue reading