focusing on the strengths
One thing I’ve noticed from the Oracle acquisition is the re-focusing on Sun strengths around the engineering talent that Sun had: Solaris, Sparc, servers and technology integration and innovation. This talent also developed such cool things as zfs, dtrace, F5100 storage array, hybrid storage pools and unified storage. As my MBA tutor tells me, one [...]
SSD experiment
After some of my recent blogs on SSDs, I was excited to have in my hand an OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD. However I neglected to remember that in my other hand I needed to have both SATA data and SATA power cables. After a trip to the local store, I come back with the required [...]
SSDs to the forefront
Following up my recent posts concerning SSD and flash based disks, there seems to be a growing understanding of the power of SSDs and also some confusion over the pricing and whether some are faster than others. I’ve compiled a summary of some other posts and info: Are some SSDs faster/better than others? YES, it [...]
The secret flash sauce
After the announcements from Oracle Open World and new TPC benchmark, a lot of focus has been on Sun and the innovation DNA that drives the company. The announcements focus on flash and their increasing use in computing: Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array So what is the secret sauce [...]
ZFS:Hybrid Storage Pools
There has been a few announcements recently (and more to come) and here’s one that can really be a game changer and enabler for future tech advances: Hybrid Storage Pools (HSP) are a new innovation designed to provide superior storage through the integration of flash with disk and DRAM. Sun and Intel have teamed up to [...]
