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What is EMC’s VFCache Good For?
EMC’s VFCache announcement Monday is a major departure from the vision of the flash memory startups such as Fusion-IO. The question is, what is VMCache good for, and is it more than just an attempt by EMC to freeze the market and maintain a place for its bread-and-butter hard disk array products? EMC ironically pioneered ...
EMC Officially Reveals Project Lightening Details, Promises FAST Unification Within a Year
Today EMC announced VFCache, aka Project Lightning, its entry into the burgeoning PCIe flash card market that so far has been the province of startups like Fusion-io, SolidFire, and Virident. While the startups focus on stand-alone systems designed for ultra-fast data capture, VFCache is designed to be integrated with EMC flash/disk storage systems at level ...
DRAM will Remain Too Expensive to Compete with Flash
In his latest article on how persistent flash memory will disrupt the IT architecture in the era of real-time, IO-centric big data processing, Wikibon CTO David Floyer looks at the issue of “Real-time IO Centric Processing for Big Data.” The article focuses on a comparison of DRAM, popular in very high value, real-time applications such ...
Node.js, Flash Technology Opens Door to Undreamed of Applications
The combination of fast development using next generation languages such as NODE.js, big data, and a five-layer IT architecture combining processors with flash storage backed up by the latest advanced disk archiving systems will allow companies to do exciting things, says Wikibon CTO David Floyer. Interviewed by SiliconAngle.com founder and CEO John Furrier on SiliconAngle.tv ...
This is the Start of the Big Data IO Era
For a year Wikibon CTO David Floyer has argued that flash memory is a disruptive technology. But to be disruptive a technology needs to make entirely new processes or applications that have major real-world implications possible, not just make existing ones faster or easier. In his latest in-depth technology cost analysis, “Designing Systems and Infrastructure ...
HP and webOS – What’s the Next Step?
One major missing piece from last week’s webOS announcement is any hint of what HP itself might do with webOS. HP does promise continued support, which might mean that it will rehire the recently laid-off webOS development team. That would certainly be good news both for those individuals and for the future of the technology itself. ...
The webOS Opportunity for RIM and the Overall Market
webOS is a promising technology with great potential that until now has suffered from bad luck. Palm’s last great innovation, introduced before the iPad, could have been a competitor to the iOS. But Palm lacked the resources, and HP has lacked the clear vision and focus on the mobile market. Given that history, today’s announcement ...
Microsoft Taking Big Risks with Windows 8
A new year is coming, and Microsoft is promising a new tablet and laptop OS, Windows 8. That should be exciting news, but the real question is whether anybody will care. Microsoft has been trying to freeze the market with leaks and hints of the marvels of this new OS. These include a complete redesign ...
Paper Waste Too Often Overlooked in the Age of the Cloud
IT has operated under constant heavy pressure from senior management to cut costs for at least 20 years. The 2008 financial meltdown has increased that pressure from a dull roar to a full scream. And as we approach the 2012 fiscal year with the U.S. economy sluggish and the Euro under threat, that pressure is ...
Why the webOS Tablet Is a Non-Starter for HP
HP CEO Meg Whitman has announced that in the next two weeks the company will decide what to do with webOS. She also, curiously, said that HP needs “another operating system”, which begs the question: Why? HP already has Windows, Linux, and its own semi-proprietary version of Unix. That would seem sufficient. Hints are being ...