The last few weeks have seen a couple of important flash technology announcements. They are important as they bring two of the “Big 5/6″ storage vendors up to speed in a market that is already pretty well occupied. Unfortunately all of these announcements are coupled with hyperbole, figure hiding and in some cases, bare-faced [...]
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Yesterday, Violin announced that they have acquired Gridiron Systems, a vendor of cache acceleration hardware and software. At the outset it may seem odd that an all-flash vendor would want to acquire a company offering acceleration for traditional arrays, however this could be a [...]
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Following up from yesterday’s post and the comments received, I thought it was worth considering how hard it would actually be to implement quality of service within a storage array.
Almost all storage arrays available today (whether physical or virtual) work on the assumption that I/O should be delivered as fast as [...]
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There have been a few interesting articles discussing EMC’s anticipated release of Project X, also known as their XtremIO acquisition from earlier this year. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus Data has a blog that does a Continue Reading This Post →
In the first wave of solid-state storage arrays, we saw commodity style SSDs (solid state drives) being added to traditional storage arrays. This solution provided an incremental benefit in performance over spinning hard drives, however the back-end technology in these arrays was developed up to 20 years ago and was purely focused around driving performance [...]
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Last week I attended Hitachi’s 2012 Blogger Day. Aside from catching up with some old friends, we were presented with some NDA stuff which will see the light of day soon. In the meantime, I want to talk about a press release Hitachi made while I was still on holiday (and clearly missed as I [...]
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August seems to have been the month for a huge raft of storage-related announcements and I’m still getting to grips with the detail, after being away on holiday for the whole month. As I start to pick out the news and make sense of how it fits into the storage landscape, I thought I’d start [...]
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