• Why EMC is doing Project Lightening and Thunder

    Updated: 2012-02-07 22:36:11
    Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess,  I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading →

  • EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part II)

    Updated: 2012-02-06 06:22:20
    EMC formerly announced VFCache (aka Project Lightning) an IO accelerator product that comprises a PCIe nand flash card (aka Solid State Device or SSD) and intelligent cache management software. The approach EMC is taking with vFCache should not be a surprise given their history of starting out with memory and SSD evolving it into an intelligent cache optimized storage solution.

  • EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part I)

    Updated: 2012-02-06 06:20:40
    EMC formerly announced VFCache (aka Project Lightning) an IO accelerator product that comprises a PCIe nand flash card (aka Solid State Device or SSD) and intelligent cache management software. The approach EMC is taking with vFCache should not be a surprise given their history of starting out with memory and SSD evolving it into an intelligent cache optimized storage solution.

  • eBay China Resumes Flash Memory Fraud With A Vengeance. If You Want A Cheap Bargain For USB Flash Drives, MP Players Or Memory Cards On eBay, Expect To Be Scammed. SanDisk, Memorette, Samsung, Transcend, Kingston Are All Losing Their Quality Reputations Thanks To eBay!

    Updated: 2012-02-04 04:05:00
    eBay China determined to fraud buyers with fake and counterfeit flash memory products, despite negative press from the FrankenFlash project and SOSFakeFlash. eBay powerless to stop eBay sellers in China from listing fake capacity flash memory for usb flash drives, memory cards and mp players? So many internet warnings to stay away from eBay China, [...]

  • Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

    Updated: 2012-02-03 19:40:00
    [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 →

  • IT and storage economics 101, supply and demand

    Updated: 2012-02-02 19:40:50
    If there is a demand for a product, technology or service and a limited supply prices and profit margins can rise if costs are contained.

  • A day and a half with HP Storage

    Updated: 2012-01-30 21:10:38
    [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 →

  • AWS (Amazon) storage gateway, first, second and third impressions

    Updated: 2012-01-25 20:18:56
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a beta of their cloud storage gateway for accessing S3 EC2 and EBS resources, here are my initial impressions

  • Cloud and travel fun

    Updated: 2012-01-25 06:55:51
    Some photos and comments on a recent day trip to record a video in Boston that involved time above real clouds.

  • Intel acquires InfiniBand fabric technology from Qlogic

    Updated: 2012-01-24 23:19:02
    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 →

  • Can I ask for your support? Please vote for my blog

    Updated: 2012-01-24 22:14:40
    Its time for voting for top blogs in different categories at @ericsiebert site vsphere-land including server virtualization, cloud, storage, networking andmore

  • My Server and Storage IO holiday break projects

    Updated: 2012-01-24 06:48:11
    Some of the server, storage, IO and networking projects that I did during my holiday break including cloud activities.

  • Will the Cloud Drive more Personal Storage?

    Updated: 2012-01-20 22:22:43
    The Consumer Electronics Show is a great place to pick up on technology trends; this year, everyone was talking about mobile devices and streaming content from the cloud. We’ve been fielding questions about the cloud for a while from people who assume it will mean a smaller memory market as smartphones and tablets scale back [...]

  • Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month

    Updated: 2012-01-19 18:49:15
    [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 →

  • 12 atoms per bit vs 35 bits per electron

    Updated: 2012-01-18 00:44:41
    Read a story today in Technology Review on Magnetic Memory Miniaturized to Just 12 Atoms by a team at  IBM Research that created a (spin) magnetic “storage device” that used 12 iron atoms  to record a single bit (near absolute … Continue reading →

  • ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) log playback results, 1Kmbox&under – chart-of-the-month

    Updated: 2012-01-12 21:02:11
    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 →

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