For years we have been seeing technology in the storage industry ‘trickle down’ as advanced features and functions become available in smaller, less expensive systems. With the rise of hyper-scale IT and software-based infrastructures we’re seeing the technology ‘leak’ accelerate,...
Read More »At VMworld a few weeks ago it seemed that every storage vendor had a hyper-converged solution. So it goes with this industry, a term gets popular and everyone jumps on the bandwagon – like happened with software-defined storage. But behind...
Read More »After attending Intel’s Developer Forum last week a few things about 3D XPoint from my previous blog need to be updated. This technology will be marketed by Intel under the name “Optane” and available in 2.5” SSDs leveraging the new...
Read More »Evaluator Group attended Flash Memory Summit 2015 in Santa Clara, this past week. Besides being markedly bigger and better attended than FMS events in the past, overall, the impression we got from this show is that there’s clearly an evolution underway...
Read More »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 »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...
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