I don’t know much about O/S drivers but I do know lots about storage interfaces. One thing that’s apparent from yesterday’s announcement from Intel is that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has taken another big leap forward. Chad Sakac’s chart of FC vs. Ethernet target unit shipments (meaning, storage interface types, I think) clearly indicate [...]
Since IT began, over the course of years, computing services have run through massive phases of decentralization out to departments followed by consolidation back to the data center. In the early years of computing, from the 50s to the 60s, the only real distributed solution to mainframe or big iron data processing was sophisticated card sorters. [...]
At a recent EMC product launch in New York, there was a customer question and answer session for industry analysts with four of EMC’s leading edge customers. One customer, Marco Pacelli, was the CEO of ClickFox, a company providing real-time data analytics to retailers, telecoms, banks and other high transaction volume companies. Interactions vs. transactions Marco [...]
In another assault on the tape market, EMC announced today a new Data Domain 860 Archiver appliance. This new system supports both short-term and long-term retention of backup data. This attacks one of the last bastions of significant tape use – long-term data archives. Historically, a cheap version of archives had been the long-term retention [...]
eBay sellers registered in Singapore are quietly preparing to sell fake flash memory on eBay, another comeback. Singapore is the most likely country outside of China and Hong Kong to offer hacked memory – usb flash drives, memory cards and mp players. Over 190 new eBay id’s are getting ready, did you buy flash memory [...]
techhunting eBay seller is documented for selling false capacity MP3 MP4 players and memory cards on eBay. Fake flash memory is also known as hacked or upgraded flash memory chips. TechReporters at FakeFlashNews recently received information on this seller from SOSFakeFlash. techhunting is suspected of belonging to an eBay counterfeit ring. To connect the dots, [...]
Although InPhase Technologies and a few other startups had taken a shot at holographic storage over time, there has not been any recent innovation here that I can see. Ecosystems matter The real problem (which InPhase was trying to address) is to build up an ecosystem around their technology. In magnetic disk storage, you have [...]
We return to our periodic discussion of storage system performance, this time on SPECsfs(r)2008 benchmark results for NFS file serving ops per second vs. system reported memory size. For some obscure reason, I was very intrigued with this chart. Chart description We have broken the data out to show those system that only used DRAM [...]
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I must admit, even though I have disparaged DVD archive life (see CDs and DVDs longevity questioned) I still backup my work desktops/family computers to DVD and DVDdl disks. It’s cheap (on sale 100 DVDs cost about $30 and DVDdl ~2.5 that much) and it’s convenient (no need for additional software, outside storage fees, or [...]
Memory cards and eBay = 95% chance of buying hacked memory, do you need convincing? Did you buy a 32GB TF Memory Card 32G Micro SD SDHC MicroSDHC TF or 32GB Class 6 SDHC SD Flash Memory Card on eBay? Beware, of a fake! You might find yourself a victim of upgraded flash memory fraud [...]