Following in the footsteps of Xiotech and Pillar Data, Overland Storage is the latest company to offer cash for old storage systems. The name for their program is “Cash For Junkers”, and they are offering up to $7000 in discounts when trading in old storage systems for Overland’s NEO E-Series tape libraries or up to $500 when purchasing Snap Server rack-mountable NAS models. [...]
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LSI is showcasing their first storage controller supporting SR-IOV technology at the Intel Developer Forum. If you’d like to have a look, stop by booth #517. SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) is a technology that speeds up virtualization by enabling a controller to appear as a physical device in more than one virtual machine. By pushing some of the virtualization logic to the controller, the hypervisor has less work, thus speeding up the functions performed by the hardware. Continue reading LSI shows SR-IOV virtualization feature The new 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT is the first 2TB drive to offer a 6 Gbps SATA-3 interface. The drive is a 7200rpm model, featuring 64MB of cache memory to make the best use of the 6 Gbps interface speeds. While the use of a 6 Gbps interface on a drive that, according to [...] Toshiba will start volume production of two new SSD modules in October; the drives are remarkable not for their storage capacity, but for their physical size. The new drives are based on their latest 32nm MLC NAND flash technology; this enables Toshiba to bring the physical size of the drives down.  Toshiba flash modules Continue reading Toshiba adds smaller SSDs to their product lineup Storagebod has posted a great reply to Hu Yoshida. You should definitely read both posts; because this is an excellent example of the kind of confusion you can get by reusing existing standard names. In this case, the problem is the “E” in DCE and FCoE. Everybody knows Ethernet technology; it’s used all over the world from private networks people run at home to the largest data centers. Continue reading The difference between your home network and DCE RemotePC has a solution for those that want to make their data accessible from the network, without having to upload it to a third party: Although online storage and sharing services are popular, there is a sizable user base that does not feel comfortable uploading their critical documents or images online due to privacy [...] According to Baseline Security, QNAP has been shipping their new series of storage applianced supporting full-disk encryption with a hidden backdoor (or decryption feature, depending on your point of view). The devices use the Linux Unified Key Setup software for the encryption; the entire disk is encrypted, and on reboot a decryption key has to be entered before data can be accessed. Continue reading QNAP blunders with hard disk encryption Within hours of posting the news about the Z-Drive from OCZ, I noticed this press release from Super Talent. They are preparing to ship a direct competitor for the OCZ product called the RAIDDrive. It is an 8-lane PCI-express card that hold four SATA Solid State Drives with a RAID controller; in that regard it is comparable to the Z-Drive. The main difference is the availability of an expander board that brings the total number of drives up to 8. Continue reading More PCI-express flash storage: Super Talent OCZ is now shipping another Flash product: the Z-Drive. It is an internal drive, connected via an 8-lane PCI express bus. This makes the drive faster than SAS or SATA based solutions; the drive is available with both SLC and MLC memory, which enables customers to choose between the highest performance and a more affordable drive.  OCZ Z-Drive After watching the webcast in which Larry Ellison unveiled their new “Sun Oracle Database Machine”, I was left wondering what the news was. Let’s summarize:
Continue reading Oracle Exadata server: where is the FlashFire technology? |
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