Here is the 2018 Hot Popular New Trending Data Infrastructure Vendors To Watch which includes startups as well as established vendors doing new things. This piece follows last year’s hot favorite trending data infrastructure vendors to watch…

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Broadcom aka Avago aka LSI announces SAS SATA NVMe Adapters with RAID

In case you missed it, Broadcom formerly known as Avago who bought the LSI adapter and RAID card business announced shipping new SAS, SATA and…

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Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016

In case you had not heard, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA, also known as Release To Manufacturing (RTM) ) of the newest version of its Windows server operating system aka Windows Server 2016 along with…

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Some server storage I/O benchmark workload scripts (Part I)

This is part one of a two-part series of posts about using some common server storage I/O benchmark tools and workload scripts. View part II here which includes the workload scripts and where to view sample results.…

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If you are or have talked the Non Volatile Memory (NVM) and NVM Express (NVMe) flash SSD talk, however have not yet done the walk, there are some good opportunities to do so. One example how to start walking the talk is get something like the …

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Non Volatile Memory (NVM), NVMe, Flash Memory Summit and SSD updates

I attended the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara CA last week and not surprisingly there were many announcements about Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) along with related enabling technologies. Some of these announcements were component based intended for original equipment manufactures (OEMs) ranging from startup to…

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Intel and Micron unveil new 3D XPoint Non Volatile Memory (NVM) for servers and storage

This is the first of a three-part series on the recent Intel and Micron 3D XPoint server storage memory announcement. Read…

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EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. Keep in mind that there is the known, there is the unknown (or assumed or speculated) and in between there are NDA's, nuff said on that. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that's a disclosure btw ;)…

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Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking and Performance Resources

The following are a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources about server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.…

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Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I)

This is part-one of a two-part post pertaining Microsoft Diskspd.that is also part of a broader…

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Server Storage I/O Benchmarking 101 for Smarties or dummies

This is the first of a series of posts and links to resources on server storage I/O performance and benchmarking (view more and follow-up posts…

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How to test your HDD, SSD or all flash array (AFA) storage fundamentals

Over at BizTech Magazine I have a new article4 Ways to Performance-Test Your New HDD or SSDthat provides a quick guide to verifying or learning what the speed characteristic of your new storage device are capable of.…

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This is the second of a two part series pertaining to EMC VFCache, you can read the first part here.

 

In this part of the series, lets look at some common questions along with comments and perspectives.…

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This is the first part of a two part series covering EMC VFCache, you can read the second part here.

 

EMC formerly…

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Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the…

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To paraphrase a former chief editor of mine: storage is boring. You have a disk, and you put stuff on it. Finito, there is no more to it than that. Nothing to see here, move along. Unfortunately, he does have a point. Not much is happening in terms of technological or even functional breakthroughs.



When I was an editor at IDG, there was very little news in terms of storage. Data warehousing maybe, SANs or NAS's. Too bad it was seldomly

ripe for a good article. Disks get bigger… Continue