Author Archives: Ray

OpenFlow part 2, Cisco’s response

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Ray

  Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior, was interviewed today by NetworkWorld discussing their response to all the recent press on OpenFlow coming out of the Open Networking Summit (see my OpenFlow the next wave in networking post).  Apparently, Cisco is funding a new spin-in … Continue reading →

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OpenFlow, the next wave in networking

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ray

Read two articles recently about how OpenFlow‘s Software Defined Networking is going to take over the networking world, just like VMware and it’s brethern have taken over the server world. Essentially, OpenFlow is a network protocol that separates the control management … Continue reading →

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New cloud storage and Hadoop managed service offering from Spring SNW

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Ray

Last week I posted my thoughts on Spring SNW in Dallas, but there were two more items that keep coming back to me (aside from the tornados).  The first was a new startup called Symform in cloud storage and the other was an … Continue reading →

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No-power sensors surface due to computational energy efficiency trends

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Ray

Read an article The computing trend that will change everything in MIT’s TechReview today  about the trend in energy consumption per unit of computation. Along with

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A “few exabytes-a-day” from SKA

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Ray

ArsTechnica reported today on the proposed Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope and it’s data requirements. IBM is in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) to help develop the SKA called the DOME project. When completed in ~2024, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Spring SNW 2012 in Dallas

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Ray

[Updated photo] Well the big news today was the tornado activity in the Dallas area. When the tornado warnings were announced customers were stuck on the exhibit floor and couldn’t leave (which made all the vendors very happy). Meetings with … Continue reading →

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SCI SPC-1 results analysis: Top 10 $/IOPS – chart-of-the-month

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Ray

Lower is better on this chart.  I can’t remember the last time we showed this Top 10 $/IOPS™ chart from the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark.  Recall that we prefer our IOPS/$/GB which factors in subsystem size but this past quarter two … Continue reading →

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SMB2.2 (CIFS) screams over InfiniBand

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Ray

I missed the MVP summit last month in Redmond, but I heard there was some more discussion of the Server Message Block v2.2 (SMB2.2, also known previously as CIFS) coming in Windows Server (R) 8. The big news is SMB2.2 … Continue reading →

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