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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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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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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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Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month
[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
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, FC, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged 3PAR, Chart of the month, HDS, HDS VSP, HP, HP 3PAR V800, IBM, IBM SVC, IBM SVC 4.3, IBM SVC 5.1, IOPS, IOPs/Drive, SPC-1, Storage Performance Council
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ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) log playback results, 1Kmbox&under – chart-of-the-month
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
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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New wireless technology augmenting data center cabling
I read a report today in Technology Review about how Bouncing data would speed up data centers, which talked about using wireless technology and special ceiling tiles to create dedicated data links between servers. The wireless signal was in the 60Ghz … Continue reading
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