The above chart is from our May Storage Intelligence newsletter dispatch on system performance and shows the latest Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark results in a scatter plot with IO/sec [or IOPS(tm)] on the vertical axis and number of disk drives on the horizontal axis. We have tried to remove all results that used [...]
I have renamed this series to “Big data” because it’s no longer just about Hadoop (see Hadoop – part 1 & Hadoop – part 2 posts). To try to partition this space just a bit, there is unstructured data analysis and structured data analysis. Hadoop is used to analyze un-structured data (although Hadoop is used [...]
I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage. They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system. Apparently a portion of their team had come from Lefthand (now owned by HP) another local storage company and the [...]
Home About the Micron Blog Jun 2011 17 Steven King Comments 0 Is Bandwidth per Watt Important to You Today’s networking OEMs face the challenging task of designing for seemingly opposite goals—high performance in an energy-conscious green” . environment The EPA estimates that in 2006 the nation’s servers and data centers used about 1.5 of the total U.S . electricity consumption—a whopping 61 billion kilowatt hours kWh at a cost of 4.5 billion . In 2011 these figures could nearly double , reaching more than 100 billion kWh , at a staggering annual cost of 7.4 . billion As one of the fastest-growing energy-use sectors in the nation , servers and data storage centers need a memory solution that can satisfy their rigorous performance demands while delivering the potential for significant
I was talking with another analyst the other day by the name of John Koller of Kai Consulting who specializes in the medical space and he was talking about the rise of electronic pathology (e-pathology). I hadn’t heard about this one. He said that just like radiology had done in the recent past, pathology investigations [...]
(Sorry about the length). In part 1 we discussed some of Hadoop’s core characteristics with respect to the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and the MapReduce analytics engine. Now in part 2 we promised to discuss some of the other projects that have emerged to make Hadoop and specifically MapReduce even easier to use to [...]BIGData is creating quite a storm around IT these days and at the bottom of big data is an Apache open source project called Hadoop. In addition, over the last month or so at least three large storage vendors have announced tie-ins with Hadoop, namely EMC (new distribution and product offering), IBM ($100M in research) and [...]
Cloud storage should not ne scary, however, do your homework, look before you leap
Dont be afraid of clouds, however look before you leap, they can mean good weather, likewise for IT they can complement what you are doing, be a replacement as well as many other options. However look before you leap, do your homework, learn what works with what tools in the new book "Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking" by Greg Schulz on CRCpress.
Episode 100 of infosmack including discussion about NetApp acquisitions, Cisco and EMC along with VMware and more.