Interested in learning more about NVMe? Download our free 21-page white paper report (no registration required) here NVMe in the Data Centre I’m only just digesting the news from Pure Accelerate 2018, including some of the product updates we saw. One aspect of the announcements was the positioning of FlashArray with NVMe. Certainly a hot… Read more »
Interested in learning more about NVMe? Download our free 21-page white paper report (no registration required) here NVMe in the Data Centre Update: This post was originally published on 11 August 2017. It has since been updated to reflect the advances in QLC technology in the market. Since NAND flash storage was first introduced into… Read more »
It would be fair to say that Violin Systems (the former Violin Memory) has had a turbulent existence. Once the darling of the industry, Violin missed the all-flash evolution and fell on hard times, going bust and returning with new investors. Last year the new CEO stepped down to be replaced by Mark Lewis, previously… Read more »
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) are two of the biggest buzzwords in the tech industry at the moment. The technologies have wide application, much greater than the often-repeated stories about self-driving cars. ML/AI solutions can be used in healthcare to improve diagnostics. It has applications across the financial world, allowing companies to be more… Read more »
Interested in learning more about NVMe? Download our free 21-page white paper report (no registration required) here NVMe in the Data Centre The rate of growth in flash media is truly incredible. In ten years, we’ve gone from highly expensive SLC devices to a range of NAND flash media for all requirements. Flash manufacturers continue… Read more »
We’re probably all familiar with the concept of the HDD or SSD reliability bathtub curve (figure 1). This shows how over the lifetime of a drive, failures typically follow a pattern where failure rate increases over time to a steady state, then increases again as the device wears out. But have you considered the idea… Read more »
For the past 20 years, Fibre Channel has been the dominant enterprise data centre storage networking technology. By this, I mean traditional Fibre Channel, not variants that work over IP or use Converged Ethernet (more on that in a moment). It’s true that other protocols exist. Smaller organisations have typically used iSCSI, because of the… Read more »
We are living in a golden age of storage media, where new products come to market offering ever greater performance with lower latency than previous generations. Today the hard drive and even early flash drives look positively archaic compared to modern NVMe drives built from 3D-XPoint, capable of delivering hundreds of thousands of IOPS and… Read more »
The next greatest thing in storage hardware is the move to NVMe. This is occurring in two ways – conversion of internal designs within shared storage platforms to use NVMe at the “back-end”, and front-end (or host connectivity) using NVMe over Fabrics in some form. Vendors are starting to use the term “end-to-end” NVMe as… Read more »
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