As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. [...]
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One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare [...]
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This week I’ll be attending IP Expo, which has probably become the UK’s biggest IT event. You can find more details out at the IP Expo Website, but if you’re quick, entry is free.
I’ll be there both days and I’m pretty busy with vendor briefings, but if you are [...]
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A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or [...]
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I’ve a busy few weeks planned for the end of October and November. One event I’ll be attending is SNW Europe 2011.
The event takes place in Frankfurt between 2-3 November 2011, with the strapline “Powering The Cloud” – you can find a link to the website here: http://poweringthecloud.com/home. There [...]
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Following on from my previous post, I thought I would do a little more work on cloud server performance. First, it’s worth looking at the underlying hardware serving virtual servers in the cloud. As I’ve been using CentOS as the base O/S for my testing, it’s pretty simple to get [...]
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Last week I was invited on to Greg Knieriemen‘s new podcast called Nekkid Tech. You may remember Greg (who doesn’t) as the host, until recently, of Infosmack. You can find a link to the download here (Nekkid Tech #3 – [...]
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