February 2013 – We had the chance to test out the STM Jet Roller 17” computer ready roller bag. Unlike most 17” computer cases, this is designed for the typical overnight traveler that needs to take a full high powered mobile workstation with them. While the computing power and display resolution are great in the [...]

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 [...]

January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Peters from the Enterprise Strategy Group reviewed the storage trends and drivers in the non-volatile spaces. Overall, the increases in e-mail-like communications and analytics are the key drivers for increasing storage. The dynamic hierarchies are aided by the changing underlying software. The hardware technologies and [...]

January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel the special requirements for programming NVMs. The technologies are capable of much greater bandwidth, reduced latency, and are creating a new storage classification; persistent memory. This new set of functions is able to retain data through power cycles and other upset events [...]

January 6, 2013, Storage Visions Conference, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the requirements for digital production flows for media. Pallab Chatterjee from M & E Tech moderated the panel. Speakers included Don Molaro from DataDirect Networks, Jim Jonez from Dot Hill, Tracey Doyle from HDS, and Steven Cohen from Aberdeen LLC. In addition to the [...]

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 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Gary Smerdon from LSI described the data deluge and other drivers in creating an inflection point in the data center storage hierarchies. The increases in technologies and in data volume are driving advances in the data center that are also changing networks and communications. By the yeare [...]

October 17, 2012, Storage Network Industry Association, Santa Clara, CA—We met with Wayne Adams, the chairman of the SNIA, to talk about his organization. In addition to working on standards and training certification programs, they also are the hosts for number of storage-related shows, such as Storage Network World and the Storage Developers Conference. The [...]

September 17, 2012, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sujoy Sen from Micron Technology postulated new architectures in the data center that are enabled by virtualizing I/O’s. These changes follow those from the previous steps in creating virtual machines and storage. Servers have been on a constant road of evolution, have changed over time to improve [...]