2.5″ is cool
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (the old IBM Disk Division) have announced a 500GB 2.5″ drive for laptops. Not particularly interesting I hear you say, however these latest drives from HGST now...
View ArticleDoes XIV spell the end for the IBM/Netapp relationship?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the position in the market for Nextra, IBMs disk storage product, acquired with the purchase of XIV at the beginning of the year. I’ve been mulling it over and...
View ArticleIBM’s Storage Announcements
Today IBM made a slew of new product announcements. None of it was a surprise due to lots of pre-announcement leaks and the fact the IBM session in Montpelier was to a certain degree the formal...
View ArticleUnderstanding EVA – revisited
Thanks to all those who posted in response to Understanding EVA earlier this week, especially Cleanur who added a lot of detail. Based on the additional knowledge, I’d summarise again: EVA disks are...
View ArticleStorage Predictions for 2009
It’s the end of another year and of course time to the obligatory posts on predictions in the industry for the next 12 months. True to form, I’ve spent some time thinking and here are my top 5...
View ArticleEnterprise Computing: Is There Any Point Buying From EMC?
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis....
View ArticleEnterprise Computing: The Benefits of Wide Striping – Avoiding A Long Tail
. The chart shows that in some array designs (typically the older Enterprise arrays), I/O distribution was not evenly balanced and so not all drives were being used to their full capacity. This was...
View ArticleChoosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
This is a series of post discussing storage array architectures. Previous posts: Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I In the first post, I discussed the shared storage model...
View ArticleIs RAID Dead? No – Next Question
Portakabin Modular Construction I had a small discussion today with a few folks on Twitter that was a forerunner to a Wikibon “Peer Incite” discussion on whether RAID was still relevant or not (hence...
View ArticleScaleIO, EMC’s New Baby
Keeping up the theme of innovation in storage (yes, it exists, you just have to look), earlier this week I had a chat to one of the UK folks at ScaleIO, the startup now acquired by EMC. ScaleIO are a...
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