Analysis
Flash-enhanced servers: Intel and Microsoft
Flash-enhanced servers promise much and Sun, Dell and HP are aboard the flash server train. What about Intel, Microsoft, Linux and Vmware?[more...]
Deduplicating archived databases
US-owned but UK-located, Clearpace Software has, in its NParchive software, software compression and deduplication technology that can cut the size of a database down to 5 percent of its original size. This is deduplication for structured information.[more...]
DataDirect directs itself towards an IPO
DataDirect Networks would have us know that it is a very successful company and is pretty determined to have an IPO in six to nine months, conditions permitting.[more...]
Dell's Storage Logic
Dell is intent on building out its iSCSI storage beachhead and becoming a substantial force in enterprise and mid-range storage markets, and adding new products to its storage line-up.[more...]
Combatting silent SATA drive errors
Are some RAID controllers not carrying out read integrity checks on SATA drives when they should? Blocks and Files recently carried a news story about RAID Inc. OEM'ming NEC's D-Series arrays to its government and high-performance computing (HPC) customers because these were the only controllers that detected and prevented the silent drive errors and read integrity failures noted by some of their customers with other products.[more...]
Flash bang RRAM
Research work on HP's never-ever forget Memristor concept is preceding apace. Memristor technology could provide a new type of computer memory that's is much faster than flash memory. HP Labs' engineers in Palo Alto have demonstrated control over how the technology operates, opening the door, they say, to its incorporation into integrated circuits (ICs).[more...]
Is there a SATA silent drive failure problem?
Yesterday RAID INc. announced it was going to OEM NEC of America D-Series drive arrays because the array controller, amongst other things, carried out read integrity validation checks. This was necessary because RAID Inc. customers had reported 'silent drive failures' on SATA drives with not all the data on the drive being accessible by the RAID controller.[more...]
STEC Sitrep
Worries expressed in a note by an Avian Securities financial analyst about STEC's competitive situation were dismissed by STEC's VP for business development, Patrick Wilkison. Text from the note is reproduced below with inserted comments.[more...]
