TFD10 Prep: Diablo Technologies
TFD10 Prep: Diablo Technologies have a couple of products now, but what are they for? Read More
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Useful Vendor Swag
Inspired by a question from @jfrappier, here is a bunch of vendor swag I’ve received over the years that has actually proved useful. Hopefully this will help marketing at the various vendors to invest in useful swag and not pointless landfill. The biggest issue with swag is its marginal utility:… Read More
DFD1 Disclosure
DFD1 was relatively light on corporate largesse in terms of volume, but as you’d know by now, I like to keep track of what I’m given that can (and does!) influence my thinking about whoever gave me the gift. I’ve written about this before, and I don’t try for totally… Read More
DFD1 Prep Post: Sandisk
Sandisk did a great job with their presentations at Storage Field Day 5 (which is where the SFD5 group photo was taken), so I’m looking forward to seeing what they have to say that relates to data. Sandisk are primarily a flash storage company, and I gave a potted history… Read More
Data Field Day 1, Here I Come
The Tech Field Day site for Data Field Day 1 has my picture on it, so I guess it’s official: I’m going to Data Field Day 1 in San Francisco, from 13 to 15 May 2015. As this is the first Data Field Day, I’m not sure what to expect.… Read More
Diablo Technologies at SFD5 and Updates
Diablo Technologies are the second half of the SanDisk ULLtraDIMM partnership. They came up with the technologies for what they call Memory Channel Storage: using the memory interface from the CPU to talk to persistent storage more-or-less directly, instead of going over a storage subsystem. We covered the reasons for… Read More
SanDisk at SFD5
SanDisk were a thoroughly impressive company during SFD5, and on reflection, a bit of an odd attendee at Tech Field Day. Why? Because TFD tends to be about enterprise technology, while most of SanDisk’s sales have traditionally been in consumer flash devices like USB drives and SD cards. SanDisk’s appearance… Read More
X-IO and Hardware Defined Storage
In a world that’s gone software-defined mad, X-IO Storage are a refreshingly honest company seemingly devoid of hype. They make storage hardware, and specialised hardware at that. For the software-defined cheer-squad, this might sound like madness, but it’s not. First of all, software has to run on something, and that… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: Diablo Technologies
Diablo Technologies are a Canadian company who have developed flash that you can access like memory, called MCS: Memory Channel Storage. It’s like the inverse of a ramdisk, for those of us old enough to remember such things: put flash into your server, but access it over the memory channel.… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: Sandisk
Sandisk are the other public company presenting at Storage Field. Their financial statements tell a very different story from those of EMC that we discussed previously. Check this out: That’s a pretty bumpy ride through the GFC. Here’s what it did for investors, in terms of Return on Equity: Ouch.… Read More