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The Shifting Storage Investment Paradigm
The standard evolution for startup vendors in the storage market has been to create a product, build a customer base and wait to be acquired or float the company in an IPO. Some companies have been more successful than others. XtremIO for example was acquired very early – great for the VCs that put up… Read more »
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Is AWS Moving to Private Cloud with Snowball Edge and EC2?
At a recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of EC2 on Snowball Edge devices. Does this move represent a challenge for private cloud and could it be the start of a hybrid strategy for the company? Snowball Edge In case you’ve not seen it before, the Snowball is a… Read more »
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Pure Storage AIRI – CI for AI
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 »
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Is Your Flash Storage Riding the DRAM Curve?
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 »
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Why Deterministic Storage Performance is Important
In the days of spinning media, I/O performance was anything but consistent. When mechanical head movement is involved, response time can vary enormously. Actually, the variation of I/O isn’t just to do with mechanics as we will discuss in a moment. However, inconsistent I/O response time is a problem for applications and as tolerances reduce,… Read more »
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Samsung Introduces 8TB NF1 NVMe SSDs
Samsung has recently announced an 8TB NF1 format NVMe SSD. NF1 was originally called NGSFF (Next Generation Small Form Factor) and is intended as a replacement for the existing M.2 format drives. With 15K and 10K drives disappearing from the market, is it time to accept we should move on from legacy HDD drive sizes?… Read more »
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Avoiding the Storage Performance Bathtub Curve
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 »
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IDC 1Q2018 Data Shows a Rebound for Storage Hardware Sales
The latest IDC Storage Tracker numbers are out and in the spirit of recent analysis, I’ve put the numbers into my tracking spreadsheet. The figures represent data for Q1, which now has 12 years’ worth of coverage. With around 42% growth in the general storage hardware figures and 20% in external storage sales, the numbers… Read more »
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Avoiding All-Flash Missing IOPS
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 »