“Build it and they will come” they say, or at least, something similar. So, Vast Data has built a new scale-out storage platform and hopes that customers will flock to adopt it. It’s 2019 – do we need another scale-out storage architecture? Amelioration I’m sure when we reflect on products that have gone before, we… Read more »
Pure Storage recently announced support for NVMe over Fabrics on FlashArray. The technology is implemented by an upgrade to Purity (the platform O/S) and installation of RDMA-capable Ethernet NICs. Pure has chosen to go with Ethernet as the first NVMe fabric offering, while other vendors have chosen the Fibre Channel route. How has this choice… Read more »
As the slowest part of the computing architecture, persistent storage is in a constant battle to improve performance. That goal has moved from being focused on throughput a few decades ago to one of reducing latency as low as possible. To that end, NVM Express and NVMe over Fabrics have become an area of focus… Read more »
As we move into 2019, storage performance becomes more important than ever. At the media level, vendors are pushing the boundaries with fast solid-state technologies like NAND flash and 3D-Xpoint. These products provide performance capabilities we’ve never seen before. Storage system vendors then take components and build storage solutions, either as bespoke hardware or part… 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 »
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 »
