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Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive

By On April 27, 2010 · 14 Comments · In Featured

Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array.  What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk.  With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional hard drive.

OK, so the S-Class isn’t going [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Cisco, IBM, Sun & EMC – A Busy Week

By On March 19, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Uncategorized

It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing.

First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric.  What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets pushed out at this point [...]

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Whatever Happened to Hybrid Drives?

By On September 5, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

Over 18 months ago, I discussed in a post (here) the Hybrid Storage Alliance who were looking to increase the performance of hard drives by adding large amounts of flash to each device. But where are they now?

A quick check on their website shows precious little information. In fact [...]

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DMX Configuration Options

By On September 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I’ve been looking at DMX configuration options this week. Essentially the question is how best to lay out a DMX-3 or DMX-4 array with a tiered configuration. For me there are two options and it’s pretty clear which I prefer. First a little background. The following diagram shows the way DMX drives are deployed within [...]

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