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 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
Dave from SolidFire was impressive. He had a quiet confidence that comes from knowing exactly what he’s doing. He knows his own product very well, which he should, but he also knows a lot about competitor products, and the market in generally. He was able to talk about all of… Read More
This is my review of XtremIO based on EMC’s presentation at Storage Field Day 5. Getting a clear picture of what XtremIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few re-watches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to… Read More
PernixData FVP, in its upcoming version (currently in private beta) has some intriguing possibilities as part of an ecosystem of products, and it adds one of the big features I asked for in my prep post. What I like most about FVP is its non-disruptive nature. Subject to a few… Read More
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
Storage Field Day 5 is over, and I’m safely ensconced back in my home office with only the slightest touch of convention plague. It was a packed week, as those who followed along on the hashtag and video will be well aware. It’s going to take some time for it… Read More
In one more sleep, plus a couple of hours, my journey to SFD5 begins. The tyranny of distance means that to get to any major tech event involves travelling 8,000 miles from where I live on the arse end of the world to where the rest of you live at… Read More
PernixData sell storage cache software, essentially. Their Flash Virtualization Platform, or FVP, is a software shim that sits between the Hypervisor (VMware only, according to their datasheet [PDF]) and the SAN (block only, so FC, FCoE or iSCSI attached, no NFS or SMB). It uses server-side flash to hold the… Read More
Welcome to the first instalment of my now-traditional pre-Tech Field Day event prep work! First up is EMC. I’ve picked EMC first for two reasons: firstly, they’re one of only two publicly listed companies we’ll be talking to as part of SFD5, and secondly, because they’re huge and have many… Read More
