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SNIA CDMI plugfest for cloud storage and cloud data services

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ray

Was invited to the SNIA tech center to witness the CDMI (Cloud Data Managament Initiative) plugfest that was going on down in Colorado Springs. It was somewhat subdued. I always imagine racks of servers, with people crawling all over them … 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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Database appliances!?

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Ray

Was talking with Oracle the other day and discussing their Exadata database system.  They have achieved a lot of success with this product.  All of which got me to wondering whether database specific storage ever makes sense.  I suppose the … Continue reading →

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Micron’s new P300 SSD and SSD longevity

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Ray

Micron just announced a new SSD drive based on their 34nm SLC NAND technology with some pretty impressive performance numbers.  They used an independent organization, Calypso SSD testing, to supply the performance numbers: Random Read 44,000 IO/sec Random Writes 16,000 IO/sec … Continue reading →

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SNIA’s new SSD performance test specification

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Ray

A couple of weeks ago SNIA just released a new version of their SSSI (SSD) performance test specification for public comment. Not sure if this is the first version out for public comment or not but I discussed a prior … Continue reading →

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Reflections on this week’s SNW

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Ray

The crowd seemed more end-user centric, the exhibit floor seemed less intense, and sigh, the bar less crowded.  But mostly what I heard at this week’s SNW was more interest on SSDs and on cloud computing and storage. Admittedly, I … Continue reading →

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SNIA Tech Center Grand Opening – Mystery Storage Contest

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday in Colorado Springs SNIA held a grand opening for their new Technology Center.  They have moved their tech center about a half mile closer to Pikes Peak. The new center has less data center floor space than the old … Continue reading →

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Why SSD performance is a mystery?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Ray

SSD and/or SSS (solid state storage) performance is a mystery to most end-users. The technology is inherently asymmetrical, i.e., it reads much faster than it writes. I have written on some of these topics before (STEC’s new MLC drive, Toshiba’s … Continue reading →

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