May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Lawrence from 451 Research evaluated trends and drivers to consider which ones will be significant over the next 5-20 years. The difficulty is taking such a long-term focus is that the technologies can change very dramatically even within the lower-end of the range. To demonstrate this [...]
February 5, 2013 – At the Linley Data Center Conference held in San Jose earlier this month, we had a chance to meeting the Ryan Baxter of Micron to discuss their new NVDIMM module that is targeted at enterprise servers. To bring higher reliability to the enterprise marketplace, the NVDIMM product looks like an RDIMM [...]
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Kaladhar Voruganti from NetApp highlighted the trends and impacts of new architectures in memory structures and what standards are needed to make the adoption proceed. Network storage now has many options in NAS and DAS, and the key parameters are IOPS and capacity. To improve performance, [...]
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Robin Harris from TechnoQWAN and StorageMojo provided an overview of the NVM industry. He reviewed the emerging technologies, products, and markets. Trends for the future have to consider the historical perspectives as new technologies displace older ones. Over time, all technologies the industry sees increasing adoption [...]
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Walls from IBM talked about server-storage problems and how the many different forms of data are making the problems worse. The information explosion is overtaking the whole industry. We are generating over 2.5 exabytes a day and 90 percent of all data has been created in [...]
November 2012 – In a briefing with Spansion, we discussed the release of the industries first 8Gb NOR flash, that has been built on a 45nm process. The part – the Spansion GL-T is a retrofit compliant memory for standard parallel interface NOR Flash of lower densities. The parts are sampling in 2012 and will [...]
October 22, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—The senior executives described the efforts and results in the company since their acquisition of the NEC assets. They noted that the third DevCon had more attendees and 36 percent of those people were not from existing customers. They heralded their increasing number and value of ecosystem partners. The [...]
August 2012, At the Flash Memory Summit we had a chance to talk to Jeff Bader of Micron about their directions and offerings for the embedded Flash space. Unlike the consumer external Flash memory solutions which are high capacity, low duty cycle and short lifetime products, dominated by NAND, the embedded space has different criteria. [...]
August 2012 – At Siggraph, Fusion I/O was showing their new PCIe interface card that uses MLC Flash to create a cache for graphics operating software (called the IOFX card). Available now in a 420GB or 512GB configuration (with retail pricing starting at $2495USD) the board is targeted at accelerating large data tasks with a [...]
August 1, 2012 – We had the opportunity to talk to Fusion IO CEO David Flynn before the big Woz 62 birthday event in SF on August first. David introduced their new ION software stack for their SSD products that allow for a software configurable storage system. This software allows the enterprise management console to [...]
