Category Archives: storage economics

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 →

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 , , , , | 2 Comments

Tape still alive, well and growing at Spectra Logic

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Ray

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 →

Posted in Storage architecture, Storage density, storage economics, Storage energy use, Tape storage | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 →

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 , , | Leave a comment

Graphene Flash Memory

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ray

I have been thinking about writing a post on “Is Flash Dead?” for a while now.  Well at least since talking with IBM research a couple of weeks ago on their new memory technologies that they have been working on. … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Data density, Data integrity, Data retention, SSD storage, Storage, storage economics, Storage energy use, Storage longevity, Storage reliability, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

EMCWorld news Day1 1st half

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Ray

EMC announced today a couple of new twists on the flash/SSD storage end of the product spectrum.  Specifically, They now support all flash/no-disk storage systems. Apparently they have been getting requests to eliminate disk storage altogether. Probably government IT but … Continue reading →

Posted in Storage, storage economics, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategy, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

SSD market dynamics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Ray

Had a talk the other week with an storage executive about SSD and NAND cost trends.  It seemed that everyone thought that $/GB for SSD was going to overtake (be less costly) than enterprise class disk sometime in 2013.  But … Continue reading →

Posted in Market dynamics, Storage, storage economics, Strategic Inflection Points | Tagged , | 4 Comments

When will disks become extinct?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it.  Also, last … Continue reading →

Posted in Data retention, Market dynamics, Storage, Storage architecture, Storage density, storage economics, Storage longevity, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness, Systems | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Why Open-FCoE is important

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Ray

I don’t know much about O/S drivers but I do know lots about storage interfaces. One thing that’s apparent from yesterday’s announcement from Intel is that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has taken another big leap forward. Chad Sakac’s chart … Continue reading →

Posted in Block Storage, Ethernet, FC, FCoE, Networking, Server virtualization, Storage, storage economics, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments