It’s been only a month since I wrote about Samsung’s 30TB solid state disk and already the bar has been set higher. This week Nimbus Data announced a 100TB 3.5″ SSD (the DC100) that blows past the proof of concept 60TB drive demonstrated by Seagate only a few years ago. How real is 100TB in… Read more »
Samsung has just announced 30.72TB in a single SAS SSD. Let’s just think what that means for a moment. That’s around 6,500 DVDs or 1,200 Blu-Ray disks, depending on how you do your maths. It’s an amazing achievement. In that form factor, 30TB in a 2.5″ drive is 6x the largest HDD available and around… Read more »
The Dell EMC XtremIO team recently presented at Storage Field Day 14. It was an opportunity to catch up on a technology I’ve been less than positive about over the years. So has XtremIO X2 moved on? What does the future look like for the all-flash platform? XtremIO Background XtremIO Inc was an Israeli start-up,… Read more »
One of the more interesting discussions from SFD14 was the review of the various mid-range platforms that Dell EMC now offers. The merger of the two organisations brought Unity and VNX(e) from EMC, while SC (Compellent) and EqualLogic came from the Dell side. Each platform has very different characteristics. Unity and VNX(e) have heritage from… Read more »
I hadn’t realised that NetApp acquired Plexistor earlier this year. Depending on which site you look at, the acquisition was a pretty cheap $20m or $32m, based on an A-round investment of around $4.5m in September 2014. NetApp demonstrated application acceleration using the Plexistor technology at Insight in Berlin last week (see the day 2… Read more »
I initially held off reviewing E8 Storage as we had a podcast scheduled with CEO Zivan Ori, which went live last Friday. Rather than make assumptions about the technology, I wanted to ensure I was giving some credit to the architecture. I’m glad I did wait because there were one or two fundamentals I hadn’t… Read more »
I recently met up with the CEO of Violin Systems, Ebrahim Abbasi, for a chat about the industry and the future of the company. Those who knew Violin Memory will be familiar with this company as it is essentially the assets and IP of the failed Violin, acquired by the Soros Group and relaunched as… Read more »
Chatting with good friend Enrico Signoretti earlier today on the subject of 1PB flash in 1U, I was reminded of the new Intel Ruler form factor. In case you missed the news, in August Intel debuted a long, thin form-factor SSD dubbed the ruler that stacks back to front and vertically in a server, potentially… Read more »
Since NAND flash storage was first introduced into enterprise computing, we’ve seen a rapid explosion in the types and capabilities of flash products that can now be deployed in servers, HCI solutions and storage arrays. QLC is the next evolution of cost reducing, space increasing flash technology. What is it and what can we expect… Read more »
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