September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Bev Crair from Intel Storage Group described the drivers and motivations for changing your ideas about storage. The next generation of storage will be a function of innovation, disruption, and trailing-edge technologies. The primary drivers are: information growth, with data size doubling every two years through…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovations Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Rubin Mohan from HP and Craig Carlson from QLogic talked about the next-generation of low latency SAN. They described the various components and aspects of storage performance and how those factors affect latency. Everyone is at least vaguely familiar with the basic performance measurements. IOPS is…
September 15, 2014, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Page Tagizad from SanDisk talked about alternate uses and form factors for memory and storage. He also looked at new use cases for flash-type devices. First, the NVDIMM markets are growing. NVDIMM-N is a mix of DDR3 and NAND to have a persistent memory via writes if…
September 9, 2014, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—One issue for systems performance is constrained by the SSD actual versus specified parameters. The operating conditions can dramatically affect IOPS and latency, which are the drivers for changing a storage tier to SSDs in the first place. The first challenge is the concurrency effects of multiple die…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Laurent Betbeder from Sony outlined the considerations for the latest console. The game audio system addresses the need for clean audio within the games. The consoles are moving towards more PC hardware to take advantage of the greater need for performance and lower costs. The major difference…
June 5, 2012, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sean McCann from Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated the latest in wireless connectivity solutions. The use of hardware acceleration for the communications stack eliminates the lag and latency of Windows and other operating systems. Killer Technology was part of Bigfoot Networks in 2007, which was acquired by Atheros, and subsequently…