Posts Tagged ‘ssd’

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array
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...
May 26th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive

Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive
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...
April 27th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing – Death of Tiering?

Enterprise Computing – Death of Tiering?
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...
February 23rd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site.  STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day.  So have solid state drives lost their sparkle? Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC earnings call.  The interesting...
November 5th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Are You Happy With A Sole Supplier?

On more than one occasion I’ve discussed the idea of putting 2.5″ drives into mainstream storage arrays and asked the question why they’ve not been widely adopted.  Probably the most common response has been to justify their non-adoption by quoting the lack of multiple suppliers for...
May 13th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part II

This is the second in a series of articles on Sun Microsystem’s Unified Storage System, also known as Amber Road.  Previous post(s): Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I So in the first post in this series I discussed the USS and gave a basic overview of the hardware....
May 6th, 2009 | GestaltIT, Reviews | Read More

The Rise of SSDs

Sun recently announced that they will be putting solid state disks into all of their server and storage range of hardware. EMC already have solid state drives for DMX-4, which was announced in January this year. EMC have also stated that they think SSDs will reach a price parity with high end FC drives...
June 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

EMC Stretches DMX Both Ways

EMC made two DMX-4 announcements today. At the top end, the first details solid state drives which replace standard spinning HDDs. At the bottom end the second announces new 1TB SATA-II drives (and other miscellaneous stuff). The solid state hard drive (or as Chuck Hollis describes it, the enterprise...
January 14th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More