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Category Archives: Data
Why EMC is doing Project Lightening and Thunder
Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess, I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading
Posted in Data efficiency, Distributed computing, Market dynamics, Scenario planning, SSD storage, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, System effectiveness, Visionary leadershp
Tagged commoditization of storage performance, Commodity hardware, EMC, EMC Project Lightening, EMC Project Thunder, external shared memory, Linux, NAND, PCIe SSD, solid state drives, SSD, SSD performance, VMware, Windows
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A day and a half with HP Storage
[long post 945 wds] HP held their (annual?) HP Tech Days in Fort Collins, Colorado this last week. We had presentations from a number of HP product managers and got to meet a number of new and old bloggers there. … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Data reduction, Disk storage, File Storage, Storage architecture, Storage Backup, System effectiveness
Tagged autonomic storage, converged storage, HP 3PAR, HP B6200, HP data center cooling technology, HP Ibrix, HP StoreOnce, HP Tech Days, HP X5000, HP X9000, Multi-tenancy
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12 atoms per bit vs 35 bits per electron
Read a story today in Technology Review on Magnetic Memory Miniaturized to Just 12 Atoms by a team at IBM Research that created a (spin) magnetic “storage device” that used 12 iron atoms to record a single bit (near absolute … Continue reading
Top 10 blog posts for 2011
Happy Holidays. I ranked my blog posts using a ratio of hits to post age and have identified with the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 (so far): Vsphere 5 storage enhancements – We discuss some of the more … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Cognitive computing, Data integrity, Ethernet, FC, FCoE, IBM SyNAPSE chip, MIT analog brain chip, SSD storage, System effectiveness
Tagged Analog synapse simulation, BlueArc, Cognitive computing, Data loss, HDS, IBM Research, Intel SSD, neuromorphic computing, OCZ SNIA, SyNAPSE chip, VMware, vSphere 5
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How has IBM research changed?
What does Watson, Neuromorphic chips and race track memory have in common. They have all emerged out of IBM research labs. I have been wondering for some time now how it is that a company known for it’s cutting edge … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate growth, Data science, Executive leadership, Information economy, R&D measures, SSD storage, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, Strategy, Visionary leadershp
Tagged IBM Research, IBM Smarter Computing Forum, Neuromorphic chips, Project management, racetrack memory, Research management, Watson
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One day with HDS
Attended #HDSday yesterday in San Jose. Listened to what seemed like the majority of the executive team. The festivities were MCed by Asim Zaheer, VP Corp and Product Marketing, a long time friend and employee, that came to HDS with the acquisition … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Corporate growth, Data analytics, Data growth, Disk storage, Executive leadership, File Storage, Information economy, Object storage, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage Features, Strategy
Tagged analyst meetings, HDS Influencers Summit, HDSday, Hitachi VSP, HNAS
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SSD news roundup
NexGen comes out of stealth NexGen Storage a local storage company came out of stealth today and is also generally available. Their storage system has been in beta since April 2011 and is in use by a number of customers … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Data QoS, Data reduction, Ethernet, SSD storage, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged DRAM storage, LaCie storage, NexGen Storage, OCZ, Solid Fire Storage, solid state drives, SSD, Thunderbolt IO, TLC SSDs, TMS
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Big data and eMedicine combine to improve healthcare
We have talked before ePathology and data growth, but Technology Review recently reported that researchers at Stanford University have used Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from multiple medical institutions to identify a new harmful drug interaction. Apparently, they found that when patients … Continue reading