Intel and Micron just announced a new solid-state memory/storage technology that looks to replace NAND flash, and probably a fair amount of DRAM as well. When we talk about new technologies most of the focus is on what it can...
Read More »A debate among economists has been brewing over whether or not humanity will continue to innovate at the pace experienced over the last 150 years—a time that produced automobiles, mass distribution of electricity, radio, television, and the Internet to name...
Read More »Never thought I would host a panel on this topic. In fact I rarely attend a women’s designated industry event, but when the Flash Memory Summit organizers asked me to host the Women in Flash Technology panel, I said yes....
Read More »Storage vendors of many sizes now offer all-flash storage arrays. Indeed, some of the dominant enterprise storage vendors now lead customer presentations with their all-flash arrays in new storage purchase discussions with customers. It’s the right thing to do strategically...
Read More »NVMe and All-Flash Arrays - Two Reasons to Attend FMS 2015 by Eric Slack A long time ago (at least from an IT perspective) flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to the enterprise and the storage industry has...
Read More »A major problem that IT professionals have dealt with over time is the creation of islands of storage. A common cause of islands is when organizations purchase and deploy new systems with their own storage for a specific purpose. Storage islands...
Read More »In July we host Hyper-Converged Webinar Summit in conjunction with SNIA (plus speakers from Intel, HP and Nutanix). Since we launched our Hyper-Converged coverage in March, it has been the highest requested research area from IT end users. Hyper-Converged (HC)...
Read More »"The Best Storage System" by Russ Fellows As a storage analyst, I often get asked the same question, “What is the best array?” My answer has evolved slightly over the years, but now I use a very direct and clear...
Read More »We contend Tier 1 storage purchases will be all solid state in 3 years; 5 years on the outside for the enterprise data center. While we have caught some heat with this position, we contend the movement is more than...
Read More »How vendor conferences help customers, analysts and press I recently attended EMC World and the IBM Edge conferences in Las Vegas, and was struck by how these shows have changed the industry. Not too long ago, industry-wide shows such as Storage Networking...
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