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A day and a half with HP Storage
[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
Posted in Block Storage, Data reduction, Disk storage, File Storage, Storage architecture, Storage Backup, System effectiveness
Tagged autonomic storage, converged storage, HP 3PAR, HP B6200, HP data center cooling technology, HP Ibrix, HP StoreOnce, HP Tech Days, HP X5000, HP X9000, Multi-tenancy
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Making hardware-software systems design easier
Recent research from MIT on a Streamlining Chip Design was in the news today. The report described work was done by Nyrav Dave PhD and Myron King to create a new programming language, BlueSpec that can convert specifications into hardware chip design (Verilog) or … Continue reading
Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?
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
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, File Storage, SSD storage, Storage architecture, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged backend storage, Caching, enterprise storage, FAST technology, hybrid drives, log structured files, NAND, NetApp, Seagate, Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive, SPC-2, SSD, WAFL
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One day with HDS
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
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Corporate growth, Data analytics, Data growth, Disk storage, Executive leadership, File Storage, Information economy, Object storage, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage Features, Strategy
Tagged analyst meetings, HDS Influencers Summit, HDSday, Hitachi VSP, HNAS
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Tape still alive, well and growing at Spectra Logic
Today I met with Spectra Logic execs and some of their Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers, and toured their manufacturing, test labs and briefing center. The tour was a blast and the customers Kyle Knack from National Geographic (Nat Geo) … Continue reading
Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization
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
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud storage, Disk storage, File Storage, Information economy, Market dynamics, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, System effectiveness, Visionary leadershp
Tagged performance utilization, processor utilization, storage virtualization adoption rate
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Disk trends, revisited
An interesting guest post on Claus’s Blog (Claus Mikkelsen of HDS) by Ian Vogelesang of HGST provided some technical/economic insights on why specific disk drives are more economically feasible than others. It’s a bit hard going and more technical than a … Continue reading
Posted in Disk storage, Market dynamics, Storage architecture, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged disk form factor, disk technology, disk trends, high performance disks, IOPS/TB, log structured file, random writes, recording density, recording technology, RW heads, shingled writes, TAR, thermally assisted recording
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SCI’s latest SPC-2 performance results analysis – chart-of-the-month
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