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IBM’s 120PB storage system
Susitna Glacier, Alaska by NASA Goddard Photo and Video (cc) (from Flickr) Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed...
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Intel acquires InfiniBand fabric technology from Qlogic
Isilon Packaging by ChrisDag (cc) (from Flickr)”][InfiniBand interconnectedIntel announced today that they are going to acquire the InfiniBand (IB) fabric technology business from Qlogic. From many...
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Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month
(SCISFS111221-001) (c) 2011 Silverton Consulting, All Rights Reserved [We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just...
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EMC buys ExtremeIO
Wow, $430M for a $25M startup that’s been around since 2009 and hasn’t generated any revenue yet. It probably compares well against Facebook’s recent $1B acquisition of Instagram but still it seems a...
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Data hypervisor
(c) 2012 Silverton Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved With all this talk of software defined networking and server virtualization where does storage virtualization stand. I blogged about some...
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vSphere 5.1 storage enhancements and future vision
We discussed last year’s vSphere 5 storage changes in a previous post. And at last week’s VMworld2012 in San Francisco, VMware announced a few new enhancements for vSphere 5.1 but showed more on their...
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Oracle (finally) releases StorageTek VSM6
[Full disclosure: I helped develop the underlying hardware for VSM 1-3 and also way back, worked on HSC for StorageTek libraries.] Virtual Storage Manager System 6 (VSM6) is here. Not exactly sure when...
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Object Storage Summit wrap up
Attended ExecEvent’s first Next-Gen Object Storage Summit in Miami this past week. Learned a lot there and met a lot of the players and movers in this space. Here is a summary of what happened during...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with SPECsfs2008?
I have been analyzing SPECsfs results now for almost 7 years now and I feel that maybe it’s time for me to discuss some of the t problems with SPECsfs2008 today that should be fixed in the next...
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VMworld 2014 projects Marvin, Mystic, and more
[This post was updated after being published to delete NDA material - sorry, RL] Attended VMworld2014 in San Francisco this past week. Lots of news, mostly about vSphere 6 beta functionality and how...
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The wizardry of StorMagic
We talked with Hans O’Sullivan, CEO and Chris Farey, CTO of StorMagic during Storage Field Days 6 (SFD6, view videos of their session) a couple of weeks back and they presented some interesting...
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Coho Data, hyperloglog and the quest for IO performance
We were at SFD6, last month and Coho Data‘s CTO & Co-Founder, Andy Warfield got up to tell us what’s happening at Coho. (We also met with Andy at SFD4, check out the videolinks to learn more.)...
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Data virtualization surfaces
There’s a new storage startup out of stealth, called Primary Data and it’s implementing data (note, not storage) virtualization. They already have $60M in funding with some pretty highpowered talent...
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What’s next for Nexenta
We talked with Nexenta at Storage Field Day 6 where they discussed their current and future software defined storage solutions. I highly encourage you to see the SFD6 videos of their sessions if you...
View ArticleEMCWorld2015 day 1 news
We are at EMCWorld2015 in Vegas this week. Day 1 was great with new XtremIO 4.0, “The Beast”, new enhanced Data Protection, and a new VCE VxRACK converged infrastructure solution announcements....
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EMCWorld2015 Day 2&3 news
Some additional news from EMCWorld2015 this week: EMC announced directed availability for DSSD, their Rack scale shared Flash storage solution using a PCIe3 (switched) fabric with 36 dual ported, flash...
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Free & frictionless and sometimes open sourced
I was at EMCWorld2015 (see my posts on the day 1 news and day 2&3 news) and IBMEdge2015 this past month and there was a lot of news on software defined storage. And it turns out I was at an HP...
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Springpath SDS springs forth
Springpath presented at SFD7 and has a new Software Defined Storage (SDS) that attempts to provide the richness of enterprise storage in a SDS solution running on commodity hardware. I would encourage...
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DDN unchains Wolfcreek, unleashes IME and updates WOS
It’s not every day that we get a vendor claiming 2.5X the top SPC-1 IOPS (currently held by Hitachi G1000 VSP all flash array at ~2M IOPS) as DataDirect Networks (DDN) has claimed for an all-flash...
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Storage systems on Agile
Was talking with Qumulo‘s CEO Peter Godman earlier this week for another GreyBeards On Storage Podcast (not available yet). One thing he said which was hard for me to comprehend was that they were...
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