Do you like IOPS? How about millions of IOPS? Ray Lucchesi gives a breakdown of NVDIMMs, including where they are at in terms of development and usability. What surprised me was how relatively robust the hardware is compared to the software. Right now there is no standard on how to address the disks on a file system level, which is needed to really leverage their faster performance. It’s an interesting introduction into the technology.
Following partnerships with many of the larger server vendors, including Cisco, Dell, and Lenovo, Simplivity is now working Huawei. The partnership brings the company’s OmniStack technology to Huawei’s FusionServer RH2288H V3. It speaks for how well Simplivity’s HCI solution is regarded that they’re reaching these partnership even with companies that offer competing ones.
Kaleao is offering what they are referencing as a “true convergence” solution in their KMAX Server. I was naturally a little skeptical, the word convergence gets thrown around with abandon in enterprise IT, and KMAX sounds like a range of Kodak black and white film. But the more I read, the more I was interested.
Dennis Sellers shares some of the news on the Bluetooth 5 specification. Bluetooth is the TGI Friday’s of technology: there’s generally not a lot genuinely bad, but there’s nothing to really entice me to use it, other than availability.
Have you heard of this Amazon Web Services thing? The AWS re:Invent 2016 conference concluded last week. In a lot of ways, their strategy resembles what Netflix does (which ironically runs on AWS). They currently have such a dominant market position, so they can afford to invest in a lot of the smaller use cases. A lot of the features they offered seem to only appeal to very niche cases. That’s just what Amazon wants, making themselves indispensable for a large number of small groups.
A lot of vendors claim to have distributed storage. Certainly many of them will sell a solution marketed as distributed. The issue is that a lot of what is marketed as distributed relies on legacy implementation. These were made with the standard storage needs in mind. Capacity, reliability, and speed aren’t hard to find these days. You know what is really hard to do? True distributed storage. That’s where StorPool comes in.
I was reviewing some of the announcements from AWS re:Invent 2016. The sheer number is kind of bewildering. It’s hard to look past the ridiculous 100PB on wheels, AWS Snowmobile, which brings together all the business savvy of a SAN with the subtly of Mad Max: Fury Road. Still in making my way through the announcements, a small one stood out to me, Amazon Lightsail.
Of course, just after my Docker post, we get some interesting Docker news! It looks like Docker has acquired storage startup Infinit. If you’re never heard of Infinit, don’t worry, the name was new to me too. Looking at the announcement blog post, it’s clear the acquisition is aimed at clearing up one of Docker’s glaring deficiencies: storage.
Last week, I read a piece about HPE Discover by […]
Erik Freeland gives some great advise on how to deal with technical questions in a job interview. It’s important to realize that on these, there’s rarely a designed “perfect answer”, rather the interviewer is looking to gauge your understanding in general.
