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 »
The desire to provide cheaper and greater capacity storage devices knows no bounds and has been a focus of the industry for the last 60 years. Following on from Seagate’s 60TB “concept” flash drive, we now have two vendors selling 50TB OEM flash drives from Nimbus Data. Let’s put that into context – the largest… Read more »
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 »
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