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‘Noisy Neighbor’ or Cuckoo?
SolidFire has launched a campaign about a phenomenon the company calls the “Noisy Neighbor.” This term is used to express a concept in which one very demanding application absorbs all of the data...
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SSDs and TCO
One of the best arguments to use an SSD is also one of the most difficult ways to sell anything. This is the Total Cost of Ownership, commonly abbreviated to “TCO.” TCO has been used as an argument...
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Violin Bets on Both Sides
Violin Memory today made some important announcements. The company has introduced a new line of one-hop PCIe SSDs, and Toshiba will be carrying these as its own products. This creates a tighter link...
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LSI’s Take on Data Center Flash
LSI Corp. has launched a new blog that covers (among other things) flash storage. It’s only natural – the company’s SandForce subsidiary is riding high on the SSD wave and LSI’s HBAs are finding...
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Nimbus Upgrades both Software and Hardware
Nimbus Data made a dual announcement on Monday, introducing an upgrade to the company’s zero-license-fee Halo storage management software and announcing volume shipments of the new Gemini storage...
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Understanding Storage Delays
Jim Pappas of Intel, a fellow member of SNIA (the Storage Networking Industry Association) shared a really intuitive way to understand storage delays at the last Storage Developer Conference (SDC)....
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One-Hop vs. Two-Hop PCIe SSDs
Lately a number of PCIe offerings have hit the SSD market. The SSD Guy breaks them into two camps: One-Hop SSDs, in which the commands are translated directly from PCIe to the NAND flash without going...
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Are HDDs Vibration Sensitive?
One reason to use SSDs is that, with no moving parts, these devices are insensitive to shock and vibration. HDDs, on the other hand, are sensitive enough to vibration that it can cause access delays....
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Seagate Upgrades Hybrids, Phases Out 7,200RPM HDDs
Seagate made two important statements on two successive days – March 4 and 5: First, the company disclosed plans to phase out its 7,200 RPM 2.5″ notebook HDDs, and second, Seagate announced a new line...
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WDC’s HGST Intros 12G SAS MLC SSDs
In case you didn’t have enough abbreviations in your life, The SSD Guy brings you the headline above, with the promise that the news below is really interesting: HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage...
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Kaminario Goes All-Flash
Kaminario has introduced the 4th generation of its K2 enterprise-grade storage array. Unlike the company’s earlier K2s, which supported DRAM, SSD, and HDD, the fourth generation K2 is all-flash, based...
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CEO Change at Fusion-io
On May 9 Objective Analysis sent an Alert to our clients discussing the prior day’s CEO change at Fusion-io. In a nutshell, co-founders David Flynn (CEO) and Rick White (Chief Marketing Officer) have...
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Webinar: How Many IOPS Do You Really Need?
Earlier today Tom Coughlin and I presented a BrightTalk webinar in league with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to discuss our joint report: How Many IOPS is Enough? The report is...
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Seagate’s Big Intro: Four New SSD Families in One Day
Seagate this week updated its SSD portfolio with four new product families and now claims to have the broadest portfolio of storage products in the industry. This announcement squarely places the...
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SPDEcon Sneak Peek
We have just finished up a webcast (now available for replay) that gives a preview of five of the solid state storage presentations that will be given at the upcoming Storage Plumbing and Data...
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Viking: Why Wait for Nonvolatile DRAM?
Viking Technology on Wednesday announced that the company has arranged with SuperMicro to deliver solutions that should solve issues key to flash storage array designers. Supermicro will ship server...
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Webinar: Replacing DRAM with SSDs
I will be presenting a webinar at BrightTalk’s Enterprise Storage Summit on Wednesday, June 12, to discuss how to use SSDs to reduce DRAM usage in the enterprise. DRAM?!? Yes! Many experienced SSD...
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IBM Makes Flash Even Faster
At IBM’s Edge 2013 conference last week the company not only extolled the values of flash, as does anyone who has had a flash experience, but it also showed how flash could be made even faster than it...
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SanDisk Upgrades FlashSoft Cache
SanDisk has rolled out a new revision of its FlashSoft server-side enterprise caching software that includes multiple improvements over the prior versions. The new release adds: Support for multiple...
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Western Digital to Acquire sTec
The following is excerpted from an Objective Analysis Alert e-mailed to our clients on 24 June, 2013: Western Digital Corporation (WDC) and sTec, Incorporated announced today an agreement for sTec to...
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