Tag Archives: IBM

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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New wireless technology augmenting data center cabling

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Ray

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 →

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Analog neural simulation or digital neuromorphic computing vs. AI

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Ray

At last week’s IBM Smarter Computing Forum we had a session on Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence machine which won Jeopardy last year and another session on IBM sponsored research helping to create the SyNAPSE digital neuromorphic computing chip. Putting “Watson … Continue reading →

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Services and products, a match made in heaven

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ray

In all the hoopla about company’s increasing services revenues what seems to be missing is that hardware and software sales automatically drive lots of services revenues. A recent Wikibon post by Doug Chandler (see Can cloud pull services and technology … Continue reading →

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Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading →

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Primary storage compression can work

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Ray

Since IBM’s announced their intent to purchase StorWize there has been much discussion on whether primary storage data compression can be made to work.  As far as I know StorWize only offered primary storage compression for file data but there is nothing … Continue reading →

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IBM Scale out NAS (SONAS) v1.1.1

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Ray

We have discussed other scale out NAS products on the market such as Symantec’s FileStore, IBRIX reborn as HP networked storage, and why SO/CFS, why now (scale out/cluster file systems) in previous posts but haven’t talked about IBM’s highend scale out NAS (SONAS) … Continue reading →

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