As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. EMC don’t say, [...]
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare to the competition and what’s their [...]
This week I’ll be attending IP Expo, which has probably become the UK’s biggest IT event. You can find more details out at the IP Expo Website, but if you’re quick, entry is free.
I’ll be there both days and I’m pretty busy with vendor briefings, but if you are going, drop me [...]
A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or less than traditional solutions. It’s a [...]
I’ve a busy few weeks planned for the end of October and November. One event I’ll be attending is SNW Europe 2011.
The event takes place in Frankfurt between 2-3 November 2011, with the strapline “Powering The Cloud” – you can find a link to the website here: http://poweringthecloud.com/home. There are actually three [...]
Following on from my previous post, I thought I would do a little more work on cloud server performance. First, it’s worth looking at the underlying hardware serving virtual servers in the cloud. As I’ve been using CentOS as the base O/S for my testing, it’s pretty simple to get a summary of [...]
Last week I was invited on to Greg Knieriemen‘s new podcast called Nekkid Tech. You may remember Greg (who doesn’t) as the host, until recently, of Infosmack. You can find a link to the download here (Nekkid Tech #3 – Chasing Amazon). As usual I haven’t listened to this [...]
One of the benefits of delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through the cloud is an abstraction from the underlying hardware delivering the service. There’s no requirement to understand what technology is being used to deliver, for example, cloud servers. The specification of a cloud-based server is based on a few simple metrics, CPU, memory [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, you can’t have failed to notice that solid state storage is here and is here in a big way. Two weeks ago at TFD#8, we had presentations from two all-flash array startups, Pure Storage and SolidFire. I’ll have more specifics on [...]
If you haven’t read it already, I urge you to have a look at the following post on Claus Mikkelsen’s (@yoclaus) blog over at HDS. It’s a guest post from Ian Vogelesang, who seems to have held many jobs in HGST and Hitachi, but focusing on the disk drive [...]
