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IBM’s FlashSystem Isn’t For Mainstream CIOs…yet
Posted by Scott Lowe in Big Data, CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization on April 22, 2013
Introduction
Recently, IBM announced a $1 billion initiative intended to improve the overall flash storage market and integrate flash storage in the company’s line of enterprise technology equipment, including servers, storage, and other products. The company feels that flash-based storage is an a tipping point in the marketplace and is poised to become much more widely used, thanks to the incredible performance gains offered by the technology. Further, as is the case with any technology, as it approaches a critical mass point, the overall costs of the technology begin to drop and this is certainly happening with flash storage. There are also other significant cost benefits to flash-based storage, such as reduced power consumption. At scale, such power savings can be real and significant.
Flash Storage will Radically Change Systems and Application Design
Posted by David Vellante in Big Data, EMC, Flash, Fusion-io, Hyperscale, IBM, Storage, Wikibon on April 11, 2013
I’d like to explore the topic of how system and storage architectures are changing and the impact this will have on application delivery and organizational productivity.
Allow me to put forth the following premise:
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructure limits application value.
What does that mean? To answer this, let’s first explore the notion of value. The value IT brings to an organization flows directly from the application to the business and is measured in terms of the productivity of the organization. Infrastructure in-and-of itself delivers no direct value; however the applications, which run on infrastructure directly affect business value. Value comes in many forms but at the highest level it’s about increasing revenue and/or cutting costs; and ultimately delivering bottom line profits.
Flash Wars Heat Up as EMC and Fusion-io Battle for Top Gun
Posted by David Vellante in Competition, EMC, Flash, Fusion-io, Hyperscale, Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Web 2.0, Wikibon on March 12, 2013
Quick Take
Flash competitors are aggressively jockeying for position as the market heats up. It’s a tale of two styles. On the one hand, EMC’s entrance into the all-flash array market targets traditional IT segments. It will both pressure competitive offerings and its own high-end block storage business. EMC is positioning to cannibalize its own base before others cut too deep into the EMC muscle; but it must walk a fine line. At the other end of the spectrum, Fusion-io is uniquely positioned to serve the hyperscale market and currently stands alone with a software-led strategy that leverages atomic writes and delivers new value to database workloads.
Pushing Forward on Backup as a Service
Posted by David Vellante in Backup, Cloud Computing, Data Protection, EMC, Infrastructure 2.0, ServicesAngle, Storage, Wikibon on March 12, 2013
Storage-as-a-Service is something we’ve been covering for years at Wikibon. In a piece we wrote way back in 2006, we said:
“The storage needs of business and application owners are simple: Give me storage when I need it. Provide services appropriate for my application in the most cost-effective manner. Charge me for what I use, don’t charge me for unnecessary waste.
Service-oriented storage has the potential to meet business needs by inherently offering the ability to:
- Provision storage capacity and function that meets application requirements based on performance, scalability, availability, cost and security needs of the business.
Iomega: Simple and huge capacity sometimes overshadows huge features
Posted by Scott Lowe in Storage on May 21, 2012
When you think of EMC, you probably think of a massive storage company that builds enterprise-grade storage arrays chock full of all kinds of storage features, such as thin provisioning, inline deduplication, seven hundred and thirty different connectivity ports of varying type for every need, and any kind of replication that you might desire.
We write a lot about the changing storage needs of modern organizations as it pertains to changing ways of doing business. It’s a sure thing that newer technologies, such as virtualization, have had a major impact on how storage systems are designed, sized, procured and configured.
7 Green Data Centers Just in Time for Spring
The power of Green, it’s working! That’s right, growth of the world’s electricity consumed by data centers has slowed substantially despite the rapid growth in the number and power of data centers. The electricity conservation is directly linked to the adoption of Green friendly tactics of powering and cooling of many forward-thinking data centers.
A recent study executed by Stanford Professor Jonathan G. Koomey, PhD by request of the New York Times found that approximately 1.3% of the world’s electricity is being consumed by data centers. However, the growth rate from 2000-2005 indicated that by 2010, data centers should have been consuming 2.2% of the world’s electricity. What slowed the growth? Well the recession actually helped (maybe the only time anyone will ever say that) but more significantly, through an industry-wide effort to make data centers more eco-friendly via various energy saving techniques.
Data deduplication is an increasingly important aspect of storage technology
Posted by Scott Lowe in Flash, Storage, Virtualization on March 9, 2012
Although new product has been continuously shipped over the past two decades, the world of storage advancement has remained relatively stagnant, at least from a performance perspective. According to PCWorld’s 50 Years of Hard Drives, the first 10,000 RPM disk was released in 1996 and the first 15,000 RPM disk released in 2000. Since that time, storage companies have focused on density and capacity rather than on performance, leading to the need for an ever-increasing number of spindles—spinning disks in an array of arrays—in order to improve overall storage performance. As a result of this eager march toward density, the primary metric by which storage has been measured has been as a function of capacity—dollar per gigabyte or dollar per terabyte, for example.
Get Ready for Project Lightning
Posted by David Vellante in EMC, Flash, Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, ServicesAngle, Storage, Wikibon on February 3, 2012
He who shall not be named sent me this thumbnail today. At any rate, the cat was already let out of the bag last month by Dave Raffo and several folks on Twitter but it looks like the ink is dry and there’s no turning back on VF Cache as the official name for Project Lightning.
What is Known About VF Cache?
Evolution of Flash Memory [Infographic]
Posted by Stuart Miniman in Storage, Wikibon on December 22, 2011
Flash is a hot topic. Not Adobe Flash, which can’t be used on Apple iPods or iPads, but Flash memory that provides the storage capacity used inside those same gadgets. While Flash memory is not a new technology, disk has dominated the enterprise space for many years. Flash’s capabilities were well suited for mobile devices and thanks to increased capacities and lower prices derived from high volumes in consumer usage, flash is back in the enterprise and new emerging cloud environments. Wikibon has been closely following this technology for many years and has a large body of research that is freely available for all to read and contribute to.
When IT Consumers Become Technology Providers—A Vertically-Led Paradigm Shift Powered by the Cloud and Big Data
Posted by David Vellante in Big Data, CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, EMC, HP, IBM, ServicesAngle, Storage, Wikibon on November 15, 2011
The End of Monopoly Rule and the Rise of Customer-Led IT
Until the conception of the World Wide Web and commercialization of the Web browser in the mid-1990’s, the IT industry was characterized by global monopolies that dominated the technology business. Despite the amazing growth trajectory of IT in the past sixty years, there really have only been two great monopolies in the history of this business—IBM and the virtual monopoly of Microsoft and Intel.
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