Store
MIT Research Pushes Latency Limits with Distributed Flash
We are hitting the limits of what can be crammed into DRAM in a number of application areas. …
Flash
Cloud
Shiny New Open Compute Gear, And The Roadmap Ahead
The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …
Enterprise
Flash Over The Tipping Point In The Enterprise
This being leap year day, storage juggernaut EMC is having fun with puns about quantum leaps and frogs as it launches its much-anticipated DSSD all-flash arrays aimed at extreme I/O performance. …
Enterprise
DSSD Pushes Flash To The Performance Extremes
If you want to know just how far the performance of an all-flash array can be pushed, you need look no further than the DSSD D5 array that, after years of development and mystery, is being launched by storage juggernaut EMC today. …
Uncategorized
The Next Wave Of All-Flash Arrays Will Run Lean
If disk drives were not so inexpensive and capacious, companies would have stopped using them for persistent storage as soon as flash drives became reliable enough for an enterprise duty cycle. …
Compute
Drilling Down Into The Machine From HPE
It has been roughly a year and a half since Hewlett Packard Enterprise first announced its intent to create a completely different kind of a system. …
Enterprise
NVDIMM: Can’t Wait for 3D XPoint, Can’t Rely On DRAM Alone
For most applications running in the datacenter, a clever distributed processing model or high availability clustering are enough to ensure that transaction processing or pushing data into a storage server will continue even if there is an error. …
Enterprise
Fat VMs Push Some Enterprises To All-Flash Arrays
Hyperscalers like Apple and Facebook helped flash vendors like Fusion-io, now part of SanDisk, get off the ground in such a big way that they could then attack the broader enterprise market. …
Enterprise
In A Decade, Disk Is Dead For Tier One Storage
The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ton. …
Enterprise
The Truth About Flash Memory In The Datacenter
Flash memory has proven to be the most disruptive storage technology of the past few years. …