Tag Archives: iSCSI

Is FC dead?!

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Ray

Was at the Pacific Crest/Mosaic annual conference cocktail hour last night surrounded by a bunch of iSCSI/NAS storage vendors and they made the statement that FC is dead. Apparently, 40GbE is just around the corner and 10GbE cards have started … Continue reading →

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SolidFire supplies scale-out SSD storage for cloud service providers

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ray

I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage.  They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system.  Apparently a portion of their … Continue reading →

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Top 10 storage technologies over the last decade

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ray

Some of these technologies were in development prior to 2000, some were available in other domains but not in storage, and some were in a few subsystems but had yet to become popular as they are today.  In no particular … Continue reading →

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One platform to rule them all – Compellent&EqualLogic&Exanet from Dell

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Ray

Dell and Compellent may be a great match because Compellent uses commodity hardware combined with specialized software to create their storage subsystem. If there’s any company out there that can take advantage of commodity hardware it’s probably Dell. (Of course … Continue reading →

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Cirtas surfaces

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, Cirtas came out of stealth mode and into the lime-light with their new Bluejet cloud storage controller hardware system.  Cirtas joins a number of other products offering cloud storage to the enterprise by supplying a more standard interface which … Continue reading →

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More cloud storage gateways come out

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ray

Multiple cloud storage gateways either have been announced or are coming out in the next quarter or so. We have talked before about Nasuni’s file cloud storage gateway appliance, but now that more are out one can have a better … Continue reading →

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ESRP 1K to 5Kmbox performance – chart of the month

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Ray

One astute reader of our performance reports pointed out that some ESRP results could be skewed by the number of drives that are used during a run.  So, we included a database transfers per spindle chart in our latest Exchange … Continue reading →

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