Few today would doubt that flash memory is far more efficient than trying to scale performance with the humble disk drive, but the cost of flash has caused many companies to reserve it for enterprise servers hosting their most critical...

The debate about flash versus disk has morphed significantly over the past few years. We have now shifted from a discussion on whether flash could even be used in the enterprise, to a conversation on price versus performance, to the...

Big is not a precise word - it depends on perspective. You can hide an army of vagueness behind the word ‘big.’ With the amount of attention the term “big data” has been getting lately, the challenge is trying to...

Convergence is a buzzword like a cat with nine lives. It’s been around the block and back. With industry leaders like Dell, IBM, HP and Microsoft now offering converged solutions, “convergence” is back in the IT limelight, and the term...

At the risk of being a little stereotypical, it’s safe to say that many of us techies also happen to be fans of science fiction and smart comedy. Given this crossover, it’s interesting to note that whether urban legend...

Exploring this shift in our society, CNN recently posted a story on how we’re increasingly using digital devices to augment our mental memories. If you’re like me, you probably only remember a few phone numbers now, much fewer than what...

Flash is a hot topic, but what is the value of flash in the data centre? Is the price such that adoption in the enterprise will continue at a rapid pace? Or is it still a niche offering, only to...

Guest post by Fusion-io senior director Mat YoungToday, data storage has two masters, performance and persistence, and serving both leads to compromise, with performance often finding itself on the short end of the stick. Compromising storage performance causes CPUs to...

When we need to book a flight these days, most of us go online and buy a ticket with a few clicks. The era when we had to drive to a travel agent, discuss our plans and pick up a...

Disk drives and Storage Area Networks (SANs) have long been viewed as a one-size-fits-all solution for performance and storage. But the invention of server-based NAND flash memory has changed the storage landscape, and we are seeing storage evolve into two...