The Need for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Updated: 2011-03-31 16:25:02
Whether a company relies heavily on database activity for critical everyday business operations or only for select requirements, the loss of data due to technological failure can have far reaching negative implications. The loss of valuable information and records can cause productivity setbacks, lost profits, lost customers and headaches for everyone involved. Aside from the [...]

As one can see from this chart clusters of off the shelf components are starting to dominate maximum IOPS performance in SPC-1. The newest member to this chart is the Huawei Symantec Oceanspace S8100 which sported 8 storage server nodes and came in at just a touch above 300K IO/second in SPC-1 benchmark results. It used 16-8GFC [...]
, Home About the Micron Blog Mar 2011 21 Ben Thiel Comments 0 C400 SSD Benchmark Results—Yeah , It’s Fast Several of you have been asking to see additional benchmark results from the C400. Micron’s product engineering teams tailor their performance testing suites to OEM requirements , which focus on IOMeter and PCMark® Vantage data . You can see these numbers in our . datasheet But we know most of you are interested in seeing a wide variety of tests . Our Crucial team runs many of the tests popular with reviewers , and I’ve included screen shots from AS SSD , ATTO , and CrystalDiskMark for the Crucial m4 SSD the consumer version of the C400 OEM drive Enjoy . You can see why we believe the C400 and m4 will be one of the most compelling client SSD designs of the year great performance ,
Had a talk the other week with an storage executive about SSD and NAND cost trends. It seemed that everyone thought that $/GB for SSD was going to overtake (be less costly) than enterprise class disk sometime in 2013. But it appeared that NAND costs weren’t coming down as fast as anticipated and now this [...]
What’s the chance that an earthquake at sea could knock out primary power and generate a tsunami which would also knock out backup generators for nuclear power plant emergency cooling equipment (1 in 40 yrs), an overextended speculative market segment would collapse and cause widespread ruin that would take down both equity and bond markets [...]
Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it. Also, last week I was at a dinner at an analyst meeting with Hitachi, where the conversation [...]
Went to Tokyo at HDS’s expense this week and had a great time talking with Hitachi and HDS about their current and future product portfolio. Arrived Monday evening and went out for an informal dinner. In the photo foreground one can see John Webster (Evaluator Group), Andrew Reichman (Forrester Research), Richard Jew (HDS), and the [...]