August 18, 2011 – Half Moon Bay, CA – Samsung in partnership with Dell held thier first annual CIO event in CA. The event is the first of 4 worldwide events that are planned. The theme of the event is the greening of the data center, and the challenges/options that they face. The speakers were [...]
August 2011 – In a recent discussion with Robert Wann, CEO of Enova Technology had a chance to review their new offering in the storage hardware encryption chipset line the X-Wall MX 256 and the X-Wall MX 256C. Enova is known for its FIPS level certified interface chips that make the basis of many of [...]
August 10, 2011 – San Jose, CA – San Disk took some time to overview their product growth strategies for the flash marketplace. The two major areas of growth are with embedded flash and SSDs. We had a chance to discuss the Embedded Flash marketplace with Gadi Ben-Gad of SanDisk for memory that is used [...]
July 2011 – Continuing our post E3 review of gaming headphones, we had a chance to test the Nox (http://www.nox-audio.com/Products) Specialist headphone which are a muti-platform headset when used with the Nox Negotiator Gaming adapter. These headsets were tested in both single player mode and multi-player mode using on-line chat in the gamng platforms. Nox [...]
July 2011 – Continuing our post E3 review of gaming headphones, we had a chance to test the Nox Scout Earbuds which are a muti-platform headset when used with the Nox Negotiator Gaming adapter. These headsets were tested in both single player mode and multi-player mode using on-line chat in the gamng platforms. Review Summary: Pro [...]
August 11, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Moon from Seagate discussed various drive capabilities and configurations, noting that there is no single best choice. Each type has strengths and weaknesses related to parameters of speed, performance, size, cost, capacity, and total operating costs. Consumers want the best of breed for their particular application. [...]
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Scott Stetzer from STEC proposed storage, system, and network designers need to develop new ideas about when, where and how to use SSDs. Fitting SSD technology to the application layer can bring new value and reduce TCO. Data centers are changing and now have to deal with [...]
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Scaramuzzo from SMART Modular described SSDs in the enterprise as a transformational disruptive force. These drives have changed the nature and costs of infrastructure for many businesses. For comparison, a 15k HDD is about 500 times slower than a SSD in IOPS terms. An SSD uses [...]
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Bill Nesheim from the hardware group at Oracle made comments on the use of flash in enterprise applications. Not everything is faster with flash, and enterprises may have other overriding requirements. In the enterprise, flash can optimize the performance of databases and storage platforms. Last year, companies [...]
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Knut Grimsrud from Intel discussed the next frontier in SSDs. The industry is moving towards new approaches to connectivity and system software to enable order of magnitude improvements in performance. In small data centers, HDDs are being replaced with SSDs resulting in a 20 times reduction in [...]
