Category Archives: Block Storage

A day and a half with HP Storage

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Ray

[long post 945 wds] HP held their (annual?) HP Tech Days in Fort Collins, Colorado this last week. We had presentations from a number of HP product managers and got to meet a number of new and old bloggers there. … Continue reading →

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Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ray

[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 →

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ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) log playback results, 1Kmbox&under – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ray

The above chart is from our last Exchange [2010] Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance dispatch released in our October newsletter (sign-up upper right).  The 1K mailbox and under category for ESRP represents Exchange storage solutions for SMB data centers. As … Continue reading →

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Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Ray

I saw where Seagate announced the next generation of their Momentus XT Hybrid (SSD & Disk) drive this week.  We haven’t discussed Hybrid drives much on this blog but it has become a viable product family. I am not planning on describing … Continue reading →

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One day with HDS

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Ray

Attended #HDSday yesterday in San Jose.  Listened to what seemed like the majority of the executive team. The festivities were MCed by Asim Zaheer, VP Corp and Product Marketing, a long time friend and employee, that came to HDS with the acquisition … Continue reading →

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SSD news roundup

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Ray

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 →

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Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Ray

One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization.  Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPC-2 performance results analysis – chart-of-the-month

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Ray

There really wasn’t that many new submissions for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 or SPC-2 benchmarks this past quarter (just the new Fujitsu DX80S2 SPC-2 run) so we thought it time to roll out a new chart. The chart above … Continue reading →

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