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I think the storage company Nimble may have figured this out.
by williesleg 11y ago
I think the storage company Nimble may have figured this out.
- stephengillie 11y agoWhat makes you think they have? Do you have a blog post or statistical data that supports this notion? Please, share!
- droopyEyelids 11y agoNot yet but the rep is taking us to the big game— a fully catered private box. I'm sure I'll hear about it there.
- robotresearcher 11y agoSo their prices are for storage and the big game. Big sales seems so wasteful.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoIf they had truly solved this problem they wouldn't need to take you to "the big game" to do sales - you'd be taking them to "the big game" to be customers...
- stephengillie 11y agoWhat is this "big game"? Are they taking you to a sporting event? Sporting events seem like an inefficient place to transfer technical details. They're rather distracting.
- pkaye 11y agoI thought they just run a rack full of managed SSDs?
- KaiserPro 11y agoNope. Nimble use a log storage format similar to that of Netapp and ZFS. Their performance special source is using the minimum amount of flash to provide a performance boost over standard HDDs. They also have very nice analytics. They are good for VMware/virtualisation. For general file storage, unless they have changed recently, is pretty mediocre.
- philipw 11y agoNot really, just an auto-tiering hybrid array, next generation storage subsystems i.e. those leveraging NVRAM are where we will likely stop talking blocks and start talking bytes just like we do to DRAM today. To get the greatest benefit of NVRAM the entire IO stack needs overhauling.