Flash Forward - Jay Kidd, CTO of NetApp blogs that “NetApp is in the process of certifying enterprise-grade SSDs that you can use in our existing storage shelves.” No dates or pricing announced yet, of course, but he does make an excellent point about SSDs in storage arrays: “For the next few years, you [...]
There’s nothing like a long summer weekend followed by an on-site consultant to keep you from updating your blog. But on the bright side, I didn’t have to link to the notebook SSDs are dead - no they’re not kerfluffle.
NetApp finds NAS could mean ‘never accessed storage’ - “According to a USENIX presentation, 90% [...]
Red Hat adopts KVM: what happens to Xen now? - I work in a VMware ESX shop right now (other than all those Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails and OpenVZ VEs, that is) - no Xen or KVM. However, given the serious pain in the butt that timekeeping is in Linux guests on ESX, [...]
Chuck’s got another, uh, thought-provoking blog post up, More Examples Of Why Server Vendors Just Don’t Get Storage, surely intended to ruffle a few feathers. And he does raise some really good points: Most server vendors need more of an SSD strategy than just making a flash drive an option (it’s how you use [...]
HP servers to get flash memory I/O boost - It looks like SSDs will become a common option on server hardware; the real issue will be how to adapt your operating system/file system/application to use them optimally.
BlueArc’s Titanic benchmark holed - A storage vendor using a non-real-world configuration to optimize benchmark results? Really? [...]
There’s been a lot of noise from the storage industry about flash recently - in particular, noise from EMC and Sun, both of whom recently announced storage products using flash, EMC in January and Sun earlier this month. Below are my thoughts on what EMC and Sun are doing, as well as what NetApp [...]
Chuck’s Blog: Vendor Differentiation Through Thought Leadership - (Yeah, that title made me gag, too.) Excerpt: “Sun came out loud and strong recently with characteristic unbridled enthusiasm. But, in classic Sun fashion, they missed the point entirely. It’s not just the flash drives (they’re just components, right?) it’s what you can do with them [...]