May 2012

21
May

At NexGen, we’d always like to avoid the following conversation:

Me:

“Knock Knock!”

IT World:

“Who’s there?”

Me:

“NexGen Storage!”

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By George Wagner | Categories: Technologies
21
May

It’s safe to say that solid-state storage is the most expensive component in most storage systems. As such, you’d expect vendors to be mindful of this and make it as efficient as possible. So it puzzles me to see so many vendors treating solid-state like inexpensive spinning disk. For example, stuffing solid-state into any available drive bay and then applying RAID. It’s just plain inefficient. You end up paying dearly for capacity and performance that is never be used.  

This...

By George Wagner | Categories: The Storage Industry