I was at another conference the other day where someone showed a chart that said the world will create 35ZB (10**21) of data and content in 2020 from 800EB (10**18) in 2009. Every time I see something like this I cringe. Yes, lot’s of data is being created today but what does that tell us about [...]
The problem with SSDs is that they typically all fail at some level of data writes, called the write endurance specification. As such, if you purchase multiple drives from the same vendor and put them in a RAID group, sometimes this can cause multiple failures because of this. Say the SSD write endurance is 250TBs [...]
eBay sellers continue to sell fake DT310 Kingston DataTraveler usb flash drives and 1958vardy is no exception. The source for most eBay sellers? Disreputable Chinese internet wholesaling sites. No other usb be flash drive fake is so widely sold on eBay. You will find new listings daily, many attempt to hide by NOT mentioning DT310 [...]
Sometime this week EMC announced a new generation of Isilon NearLine storage which now includes HGST 3TB SATA disk drives. With the new capacity the multi-node (144) Isilon cluster using the 108NL nodes can support 15PB of file data in a single file system. Some of the booths along the walk to the solutions pavilion [...]Day 2 saw releases for new VMAX and VPLEX capabilities hinted at yesterday in Joe’s keynote. Namely, VMAX announcements VMAX now supports Native FCoE with 10GbE support now VMAX supports directly FCoE, 10GbE iSCSI and SRDF Enhanced Federated Live Migration supports other multi-pathing software, specifically it now adds MPIO to PowerPath and soon to come [...]
EMC announced today a couple of new twists on the flash/SSD storage end of the product spectrum. Specifically, They now support all flash/no-disk storage systems. Apparently they have been getting requests to eliminate disk storage altogether. Probably government IT but maybe some high-end enterprise customers with low-power, high performance requirements. They are going to roll [...]