Category Archives: Systems

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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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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NSA’s huge (YBs) new data center to turn on in 2013

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Ray

  Ran across a story in Wired about the new NSA Utah data center today which is scheduled to be operational in September of 2013. This new data center is intended to house copies of all communications intercepted the NSA. … Continue reading →

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Archeology meets Big Data

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ray

Read an article yesterday about the use of LIDAR (light detection and ranging, Wikipedia) to map the residues of an pre-columbian civilization in Central America, the little know Purepecha empire, peers of the Aztecs. The original study (seeLIDAR at Angamuco) … Continue reading →

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Super Talent releases a 4-SSD, RAIDDrive PCIe card

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Ray

Not exactly sure what is happening, but PCIe cards are coming out containing multiple SSD drives. For example, the recently announced Super Talent RAIDDrive UpStream card contains 4 SAS embedded SSDs that can push storage capacity up to almost a TB … Continue reading →

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