SSD/Flash/NVRAM – StorageMojo

One of the oddest marriages in high tech is coming to an end. Intel and Micron have announced that they are going their separate ways on 3D Xpoint. They’ll still share their Utah fab – j...

https://storagemojo.com/2018/03/14/the-intel-micron-shotgun-divorce/

StorageMojo’s crack analyst team will be attending next months Flash Memory Summit. The dates are August 8-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Wasn’t able to attend last year, but the 2...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/07/17/flash-memory-summit-next-month/

With the news that Toshiba has developed 3D quad-level cell flash with 768Gb die capacity, I’m reminded of the moving target problem. This is a problem whenever a new technology seeks to carve ...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/07/11/the-moving-target-problem/

Adapting to NVRAM is going to be a lengthy process. This was pointed out by a recent paper. More on that later. Thankfully, Intel wildly pre-announced 3D XPoint. That has spurred OS and applicati...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/06/19/a-transaction-processing-system-for-nvram/

After years of skepticism about rack scale design (RSD), StorageMojo is coming around to the idea that it could work. It’s still a lab project, but researchers are making serious progress on th...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/06/12/a-distributed-fabric-for-rack-scale-computing/

In response to yesterday’s StorageMojo post on Infinidat, Brian Carmody of Infinidat tweeted: Robin, Verde Valley is a great organization. @INFINIDAT will donate $10K for every Infinidat Challe...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/06/06/infinidat-sweetens-all-flash-array-challenge/

StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/06/05/infinidats-sweet-afa-challenge/

A reader wrote to ask for the StorageMojo take on NetApp now, as opposed to the assessment in How doomed is NetApp? two years ago. Q3 had some good news for NetApp. In their latest 10Q filing, th...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/04/20/is-netapp-still-doomed/

MRAM technology is hot. I’ve written about Everspin – they’ve been shipping for years and just IPO’d – and now I’d like to introduce Spin Transfer Technologies. They’ve kept a low p...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/04/19/spin-transfer-technologies-next-up-in-the-mram-race/

For decades customers routinely overconfigured storage arrays to get performance. Customers bought the most costly hard drives – 15k SAS or FC – at huge markups. Then they’d short stroke th...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/03/30/sizing-the-overconfig-effect-on-the-array-market/

A couple of weeks ago Dell EMC announced the demise of the once promising DSSD all flash array. They are planning to incorporate DSSD technology into their other products. As StorageMojo noted 4 ...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/03/22/dssds-demise/

HPE’s has offered to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B. The StorageMojo take This is a good move for both companies. HPE has the enterprise footprint that Nimble was spending big to build, and Nimb...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/03/07/hp-offers-to-buy-nimble-storage/

In this morning’s post on ZDNet on the diseconomies of flash sharing I discuss the fact that many NVMe/PCIe SSDs are as fast as most all flash arrays (AFA). What does that mean for the all flas...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/02/23/the-coming-all-flash-arraynvmepcie-ssd-dogfight/

For all the time and effort poured into the storage market over the last 20 years, surprisingly little innovation has come from storage vendors themselves. Why is that? Hall of shame EMC got its ...

https://storagemojo.com/2017/02/20/why-isnt-storage-innovation-coming-from-the-storage-industry/