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Storage and Storage Software

IDC: "The Future of Storage is Software Based"

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Global file- and object-based storage (FOBS) revenues will reach $23 billion in 2013 before growing to $38bn by 2017 IDC reports, with the shift to FOBS driving growth in the overall enterprise storage systems market. 

"FOBS solutions are much more versatile and will quickly outpace more rigid, hardware-based options," the analyst says. "Scale-up solutions, including unitary file servers and scale-up appliances and gateways, will fall on hard times throughout the [2012-2017] forecast period, experiencing sluggish growth through 2016 before beginning to decline in 2017. On the other hand, scale-out file- and object-based solutions-– delivered either as software, virtual storage appliances, hardware appliances, or self-built for delivering cloud-based offerings-– are forecast to show robust growth with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.5% from 2012 to 2017."

According to IDC FOBS solutions will find more diverse use cases as versatility increases-- meaning vendors must make platforms compatible with server and desktop virtualisation, in-place analytics (what IDC calls "Compustorage") and NoSQL databases as FOBS solutions dominate applications such as archiving and eDiscovery.  Read more...

A RRAM to Boost Flash Storage

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A RRAM to Boost Flash Storage

Crossbar emerges from "stealth-mode" and announces its take on high density non-volatile memory-- Resistive RAM (RRAM), a technology promising up to 1 terabyte of storage on a single 200mm-square die.

The company claims RRAM offers X20 faster write speed, X20 lower power consumption and X10 the endurance at half the die size compared to best-in-class NAND flash, with a simple three-layer structure allowing the "stacking" of multiple terabytes of storage on a single chip.

The technology is also CMOS compatible, allowing the easy integration of logic and memory into a single chip.

In a few words, RRAM consists of 3 layers-- a metallic top electrode, a switching medium and a bottom non-metallic electrode, with ions passing between the top and bottom electrodes creating the 1s and 0s of digital storage. Thus it is different from NAND (since it uses no transistors) or memristor memory (consists of two electrodes on either side of a chalcogenide).

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Faster Storage Via Memory Channels

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Faster Storage Via Memory Channels

Diablo Technology promises a "transformational" storage and system memory solution with Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture-- a means of attaching flash storage to servers and storage arrays via memory channels. 

In a few words, MCS uses the standard DDR-3 CPU interface and protocols to connect flash storage to the CPU instead of RAM. Thus it takes advantage of the fastest route to the CPU, and makes use of multiple parallel DIMMs (dual in-line memory modules) to avoid bottlenecks. 

MCS components come in either 200 or 400GB capacities and fit into DIMM slots designed for 32GB of RAM.  Read more...

Sony, Panasonic on Next-Gen Discs

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Sony, Panasonic on Next-Gen Discs

Sony and Panasonic kick off joint development on the next generation of optical storage standard-- with hopes of creating an optical disc with "recording capacity of at least 300GB" by end 2015.

The two companies already have experience working together, having both developed products based on the Blu-ray format.

The team-up currently aims at professional applications (chiefly archiving), but the technology might trickle into consumer space further in the future.

When it comes to professional storage, Sony already offers an XDCAM-based optical Read more...

Seagate Claims First Enterprise SSHD

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Seagate Claims First Enterprise SSHD

Seagate claims it has the first enterprise hybrid drive-- the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, a combination of 3.5-inch 15K HDD with 32GB eMLC NAND flash cache promising 3 times the speed of a conventional 3.5-inch 15K drive. 

Available in 300, 450 and 600GB capacities the Enterprise Turbo SSHD also features 128MB DRAM, SAS interface and operation at up to 900 IOPS. 

The drive fine tunes storage tiering by caching at I/O level, thus addressing performance gaps and bottlenecks found in tiered system environments. It also offers a self-encryption option for maximum data-at-rest security.  Read more...

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