Synchronous replication is a key feature that many enterprises depend on for data protection as it offers the ability to ensure data is 100% copied to a remote site in the event of a disaster. On flash storage, sync replication may seem a little at odds with the idea of providing high performance, but the… Read more »
Update: I initially wrote this post and had it in draft for publication, however my views were changed by an announcement made today (see later in the post) I had some interesting feedback from one of my recent previous posts, in which I suggested that HPE might be planning to retire the 3PAR platform in… Read more »
Earlier this month Dell EMC announced XtremIO X2, the next generation hardware platform of their once flagship all-flash storage offering. With the new systems, storage capacity per node has been increased from 25 to 72 drives. The numbers quoted for initial deployments and upgrades seems to counter the original design of data protection on XtremIO,… Read more »
There’s been a lot of coverage and potential hype around the impending release of Intel and Micron’s 3D-XPoint persistent storage technology. Now it seems we have a good example of how Optane (as Intel are branding it) could be deployed into existing storage platforms. During HPE Discover London (December 2016), the 3PAR team ran a demo… Read more »
Last week I was reading this article on Ars Technica discussing the latest Samsung M.2 format drives to hit the market. In something similar to a DIMM format, you get up to 2TB of capacity and read/write speeds of 3.5GB/s and 2.1GB/s respectively. M.2 comes in a range of sizes and was originally developed for… Read more »
Despite all the recent noise around software defined storage (SDS), vendors still keep coming to the market with new hardware solutions. Over the past weeks we’ve seen new products from Nimbus Data and emerging startup E8. Nimbus Nimbus Data has had what can only be called a ‘chequered’ history. My first introduction to the company was… Read more »
It’s a contentious title for a blog post, but I felt it worth writing a follow-up to both my Vulcan Cast with Marc Farley and Chris Mellor’s article in The Register. A rumour circulating last week implied that EMC was considering shutting down the XtremIO product line. The origin seemed to come from a number… Read more »
If you’ve ever had to scope out and purchase enterprise storage, you’ll know what a nightmare it can be. Vendors love to make the process as opaque as possible, with quotes that run into multiple pages and dozens of line items – including bezels and racks. Consider also the issue of adding more hardware (e.g…. Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
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