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New @georgeacrump #FMS2017 Note: The Always-On Data Fabric - ioFABRIC

While most software defined storage (SDS) solutions offer a degree of data services consolidation within a single data center, they don’t extend that consolidation of services across locations and into the cloud. Each location is discrete and needs separate management. A data fabric extends the SDS concept across locations and into the cloud, creating a single policy-driven architecture that…

New @georgeacrump Note: Coraid - A Storage Company Without an Exit Strategy

For most storage startups, it is all about the “exit strategy” – also known as the liquidity event. That is the moment where years and sometimes decades of non-profitability is made up for by either being bought or going public. Going public doesn’t always help. How many profitable public-held storage companies are there? Here is a new concept, what if a company focused on being profitable while…

New @georgeacrump Note: Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS - iXsystems #FMS2017

Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the data center can continue to use NFS and SMB. What if the problem was solved from the other direction, adding object storage capabilities to the NAS system? That’s exactly what iX…

New @georgeacrump #FMS2017 Note: Making Storage Class Memory DIMMs a Reality - Netlist

Storage Class Memory is a technology that places memory and storage on what looks like a standard DIMM board. The DIMM is installed in the memory channel similar to a DRAM DIMM. Supporting storage in the memory channel is challenging as it was originally designed exclusively for high-performance memory. The problem is how to get the system and applications to recognize that something beyond just…

New @georgeacrump #FMS2017 Note: Flash Portfolio’s Matter - Seagate

Flash storage is evolving on three vectors. Performance continues to be the key vector. Most data centers buy flash because of its performance attributes; high IOPS and low latency. The second vector is density. Flash has the ability to provide dozens of TBs of storage in standard drive form factors. The third vector is drive connectivity, the connection between the device and CPU/memory is…