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 »
This is one of a series of posts that will cover new storage architectures for the enterprise data centre and form part of an Architecting IT white paper later this year. Storage platforms for primary workloads have generally fallen into a few standard categories, such as dual-controller or scale-out. With spinning media, the overhead of… Read more »
This week Kaminario announced a software-defined storage offering called Cloud Fabric, which packages the company’s storage software for cloud service providers. E8 Storage announced a software-only version of the company’s flagship product that can run on pre-qualified hardware platforms. Has the golden age of Software Defined Storage finally arrived? Software First In some respects, the… Read more »
This week E8 Storage announced that the company had successfully beaten the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark, with a test based on an E8 appliance and IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS). The test chosen was software build, which generates lots of I/O activity across many files. As the press release from E8 says, this workload emulates the… Read more »
This is one of a series of academic paper reviews covering aspects of technology. Vendors like to tell us how the transition to NVMe-based storage will dramatically improve performance. In fact, I’ve talked at length myself about the benefits of NVMe technology. However, it helps to have empirical (and independent) evidence to back up the… 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 »
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