April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Tom Kelly, gm of IDEO offered the concept that organizations must strive for continuous innovation. There is a need for creativity in organizations, as one part of the solution to the increasing complexity of technology, business, and the organizations. Companies must out innovate their competitors to stay [...]

 April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Mike Cutler from Dreamworks Animation described the high-performance data management system they used for animation production. Although most people don’t consider cartoons as high technology, their system requirements constantly push the boundaries for state-of-the-art data processing centers. DreamWorks started in the 90s and the artists were also [...]

 April 4,2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, Ca—Eason Ho from Calypso Systems described the emerging SNIA performance test specifications for solid state storage devices. The emerging market is over due for some standardization as there is no common methodology, terminology, nor test environment for SSDs. Because of the lack of standards, it is difficult to [...]

 April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Simon Gordon from Juniper Networks described ongoing changes in the data center. The changes include protocols, operations and traffic patterns with new protocols like iSCSI. Virtualization is moving into all of the data center areas-servers, networks, and storage. Although most storage protocols don’t affect the operations, some [...]

 April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Dennis Martin from Demartektalk about the state of solid-state storage. In general, capacities are up and costs are dropping, and solid-state storage capabilities high enough to even encroach into the enterprise spaces. An enterprise class HDD needs to perform between 100,000 and 200,000 IOPS while less than [...]