Flash news I wish I could read
For a short while, I ran the flash memory strategy at Sun and then Oracle, so I still keep my ear to the ground regarding flash news. That news is often frustratingly light — journalists in the space who are fully capable of providing analysis end up brushing the surface. With a tip of the [...]
In: Flash · Tagged with: Compellent, EMC, flash, HSP, NetApp, Oracle, SSD, Sun, TheRegister, ZFS
The future of Solaris
In 2005, Sun released the source code to Solaris, described then as the company’s crown jewel. Why do this? The simplest answer is that Solaris had been losing ground to an open source competitor in Linux. Losing ground was a symptom of economics. Students who had once been raised on Solaris were being inculcated with [...]
In: illumos, OpenSolaris · Tagged with: illumos, OpenSolaris, Oracle, Sun
Fishworks history of SSDs
This year’s flash memory summit got me thinking about our use of SSDs over the years at Fishworks. The picture of our left is a visual history of SSD evals in rough chronological order from the oldest at the bottom to the newest at the top (including some that have yet to see the light [...]