Category Archives: Storage energy use

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 →

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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 →

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IBM’s 120PB storage system

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ray

Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer.  Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … Continue reading →

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SNIA illuminates storage power efficiency

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Ray

At SNW, a couple of weeks back, SNIA annouced the coming out of their green storage initiative’s new SNIA Emerald Program and the first public draft release of their storage power efficiency test  specification.  Up until now, other than SPC and … Continue reading →

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SPC-1/E IOPS per watt – chart of the month

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Ray

Not a lot of Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark submissions this past quarter just a new SPC-1/E from HP StorageWorks on their 6400 EVA with SSDs and a new SPC-1 run for Oracle Sun StorageTek 6780.  Recall that SPC-1/E executes … Continue reading →

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Save the planet – buy fatter disks and flash

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ray

Well maybe that overstates the case but there is no denying that both fatter (higher capacity) drives and flash memory (used as cache or in SSDs) saves energy in today’s data center.  The interesting thing is that the trend to … Continue reading →

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SSD vs Drive energy use

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Ray

Recently, the Storage Performance Council (SPC) has introduced a new benchmark series, the SPC-1C/E, which provides detailed energy usage for storage subsystems. So far there have been only two published submissions in this category but we look forward to seeing … Continue reading →

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