September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter Murray from SwiftTest suggested that IOPs is not a good metric for characterizing and testing storage performance. The problem is that this measurement doesn’t acknowledge the contributions of the other systems components to storage performance. Storage performance validation has evolved from blind reliance on vendor claims,…
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…
August 21,20-12, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Scaramuzzo from Smart Storage Systems talked about the internal and external drivers for the storage industry. His talk was framed around the question, “if time is money, what is endurance related to?” As a background, the exponentially growing volume of data is increasing the complexity of the…