At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a chance to install and review it.
I also discussed the core of Emulex’s business, namely HBAs (Host [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers. However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?
New Devices
First of all, let’s take a look at [...]
I found the following article from last week’s “The Register” an interesting one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/hp_and_violin_memory/
In it, Chris Mellor talks about HP producing an Oracle Exadata competitor by integrating the use of Violin Memory’s all-SSD storage array. Folks may remember that I predicted exactly this set up in the following post:
A random comment made on twitter a few days ago has been stuck in my mind and been going around and around. It’s finally emerged. Even as we start into 2011 we don’t really have scalable Storage Resource Management products for the Enterprise.
Sure, we have point products that can managed small numbers of arrays. [...]
I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest. So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays. Why are these interesting? Because I think they are moving and potentially [...]
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 [...]
I’m not the first to post on the subject of Netapp’s President and CEO Tom Georgens commenting during their latest earnings call on the apparent death of tiering as we know it today.
In Netapp’s view, there will be no tiering of storage in the future. Instead we will be using SATA drives [...]
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