Re: How much SSD do you need vs. want?
Thanks Lee, hope all is well over at Starboard Storage
View ArticleRe: Why FC and FCoE vendors get beat up over bandwidth?
Hi Greg, I presented on this topic (in a round about way) this year at EMC World and I have a slightly different take on the topic. Essentially, when you compare the impact of the latency through an...
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Correction! I meant 10-20usec for "Store and Forward".
View ArticleRe: Why FC and FCoE vendors get beat up over bandwidth?
Hello Erik and great to talk with you about this topic prior to your preso at EMCworld, sorry I missed, had another appointment with one of your associates during that time. I concur that the amount of...
View ArticleRe: How much SSD do you need vs. want?
I'm going for 100% SSDrives to replace HDDrives. The system I'm developing won't demand DRAM by the bucket, so a regular 2 to 4GB on the MoBo is just fine. I agree with your comment on the route to get...
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Analystia only 2-4GB DRAM? wow, thats impressive and opposite of how RDBMs/RDBs and even unstructure data analytics have been going. Are you sure you didnt work with PICK in the past? ;)... Sounds like...
View ArticleRe: EPA Energy Star for data center storage draft 3 specification
That is quite an interesting list of excluded products in section 2.2.2. Seems like the block-heads at SNIA have a stranglehold on the spec. :-)
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Greg, While there is no shortage of hyperbole in the industry, there definitely are some large trends that are shifting the storage world. Over the last decade, many servers went to diskless...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
What will be interesting is the pending revolution that storage class memory will provide, once we move beyond spinning storage and the distraction of flash. Hopefully we'll check back in a couple of...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Hello Stuand thanks for the notes/comments. Actually,I did mention SSD (aka flash) in the above post. If therewas not enough focus on flash, or particular PCIe flash you can certainly finda lot more...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Hello Charlie good point about storage class memory, we can as you mentioned check back in a few years and see if that technology takes off as some predict vs. hopefully not following other pending...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Hi Greg - One thing is for sure - especially in storage: the only thing harder than bringing a new technology to market is making an old one go away. You are absolutely correct about DAS, and the...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Good points Rob, thanks for the comments
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Also interesting to watch what Microsoft is doing w storage in Win Server 2012 / Hyper-V, & other products like SQL Server. Much like they did earlier w MS Exchange. --introducing more replication...
View ArticleRe: How can direct attached storage (DAS) make a comeback if it never left?
Good points Tim about MSFT (among others) with and without virtualization leveraging DAS (both dedicated and shared).
View ArticleRe: NAD recommends Oracle discontinue certain Exadata performance claims
We need a consumer watch dog even if it is one with no teeth, that will rebuke these faulty claims by Oracle.
View ArticleRe: NAD recommends Oracle discontinue certain Exadata performance claims
Greg Shulz, consumer watchdog! This is a rarity; IBM rarely responds to outrageous claims. I wonder what prompted this particular event?
View ArticleRe: NAD recommends Oracle discontinue certain Exadata performance claims
Frankfinley what prompted the event was Oracle putting out signs, taking out full page ads in various venues making performance claims. I suspect by reading between the lines is that some deals were...
View ArticleRe: What does new EMC and Lenovo partnership mean?
Here is some additional coverage by Lucas Mearian of Computerworld that includes perspectives by myself and other industry analysts. http://www.computerworld.com/s...
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