Category Archives: Networking

Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ray

[As promised, I am trying to get up-to-date on my performance charts from our monthly newsletters. This one brings us current up through November.] The above chart plots Storage Performance Council SPC-1 IOPS against spindle count.  On this chart, we have … Continue reading →

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Top 10 blog posts for 2011

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Ray

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 →

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New wireless technology augmenting data center cabling

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Ray

I read a report today in Technology Review about how Bouncing data would speed up data centers, which talked about using wireless technology and special ceiling tiles to create dedicated data links between servers.  The wireless signal was in the 60Ghz … Continue reading →

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SSD news roundup

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Ray

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 →

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Latest SPECsfs2008 benchmarks analysis, CIFS vs NFS corrected – chart of the month

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Ray

We made a mistake in our last post discussing CIFS vs. NFS results using SPECsfs2008 benchmarks by including some storage systems that had SSDs in this analysis. All of our other per spindle/disk drive analyses exclude SSDs and NAND cache because they … Continue reading →

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Electro-human interface

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Ray

There has been a lot of talk recently about neuromorphic computing (see IBM introduces SyNAPSE) and using Phase Change Memory for artificial neurons but there hasn’t been much discussion of ways to interface human’s or for that matter any life whatsoever to … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPC-2 performance results analysis – chart-of-the-month

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Ray

There really wasn’t that many new submissions for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 or SPC-2 benchmarks this past quarter (just the new Fujitsu DX80S2 SPC-2 run) so we thought it time to roll out a new chart. The chart above … Continue reading →

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IBM’s 120PB storage system

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ray

Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer.  Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … Continue reading →

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