A periodic newsletter with links to blogs and industry news for subscribers to the Architecting IT blog. View this email in your browser This is newsletter #26, published on 15 August 2016. Hardware Still Has Relevance For Storage It's been an interesting few weeks in terms of new product announcements, with a focus on many vendors releasing new storage hardware. With all the talk about software-defined storage (SDS) and hyper-convergence, one could be excused from thinking that storage hardware has no future. Nothing could be further from the truth. Commoditisation Technology has commoditised over the last 20 years. Initially we saw the change come in with hard drives as standardisation on half-height 3.5" and 2.5" form factors has given us technology that has rapidly increased in capacity and decreased in cost. Bar a few blips like the Thailand flooding, this reduction has been fairly constant. Future innovations on HDDs will focus on large capacity devices with increasing cost efficiency. Solid-state disks (SSDs) are taking over at the high end. Again, prices are
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A periodic newsletter with links to blogs and industry news forsubscribers to the Architecting IT blog
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This is newsletter 26 published on 15 August 2016
Hardware Still Has Relevance For Storage
Its been an interesting few weeks in terms of new product announcementswith a focus on many vendors releasing new storage hardware With all thetalk about software-defined storage (SDS) and hyper-convergence one couldbe excused from thinking that storage hardware has no future Nothing couldbe further from the truth Commoditisation
Technology has commoditised over the last 20 years Initially we saw thechange come in with hard drives as standardisation on half-height 35 and 25form factors has given us technology that has rapidly increased in capacity anddecreased in cost Bar a few blips like the Thailand flooding this reduction hasbeen fairly constant Future innovations on HDDs will focus on large capacitydevices with increasing cost efficiency
Solid-state disks (SSDs) are taking over at the high end Again prices are
dropping quickly with a range of devices to meet capacity cost and endurancerequirements Outside of that servers and controllers have also pretty muchstandardised with very little to choose between hardware from differentvendors especially at the lower end of the market
The result of this commoditisation is that storage appliances can be built fromoff the shelf components and in fact most manufacturers are doing thisthemselves The difference though is that they are choosing components witha narrow focus based on reliability and costvalue End users can build theirown with any components at the risk of compatibility SDS vendors cant testevery version of firmware drivers and OS code with every device so ingeneral things will work with common components but there may be edge caseissues that arise New Technology
So how and why are vendors bringing new hardware products to market whenSDS seems to already deliver what we need Here are some points toconsider
People like appliances unless youre at hyper-scale and can afford ateam to design test and support your own hardwaresoftware solutionsthen appliances and the support from the vendor will continue to have aplace Of course there will always be a cost-conscious bottom end of themarket where SDS can play tooNew technology continues to be developed the latest products to appearfrom storage vendors will support things like NVMe drives NVMe andPCIe fabrics to connect servers and storage At the memory level wehave non-volatile DIMMs and technology like 3D-Xpoint that canintroduce new ways to manage data
There will continue to be a place for storage appliance vendors especially atthe cutting edge of technology As this hardware commoditises it will trickledown to SDS and become easier to build rather than buy However for manypeople buying a storage appliance will always be a preferred solution
What do you think
Chris Evans
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A former employee of Citibank has been sentenced to 21 months in prison forcrippling the banks internal network Lennon Ray Brown was given the nearlytwo-year jail term ndash along with a $77000 fine ndash by a Northern Texas DistrictCourt this week after he pleaded guilty to one count of intentional damage to acomputer
Reuters More airline outages predicted as carriers grapple with 1960stechnology
Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about2000 Delta (DALN) flights this week because major carriers have not investedenough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the1960s airline industry and technology experts told Reuters
Reuters Alphabet and Amazon wind up stellar quarter for big tech
Google parent Alphabet Inc and e-commerce giant Amazoncom Inc capped ablockbuster June quarter for the five biggest US tech companies as theirdominance in key markets helped them defy the law of large numbers
Data Center Knowledge HPE Buying Supercomputer Specialist SGI for $275m
(Bloomberg) mdash Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Silicon GraphicsInternational for about $275 million in cash adding high-performancecomputing capabilities that improve data analytics
The Register Hitachi Americas CEO resigns
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Ars Technica New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infectedcomputer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet toprevent the leakage of sensitive information it stores
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The Computer History Museum has revealed part of an unpublished memoir byGary Kildall a programmer and entrepreneur who made critical contributions tothe personal computer industry in its formative years
Startup SpotlightDiamanti is a start-up focused on delivering storage for container-basedworkloads The company offers a scale-out hardware solution that can bedefined as hyper-converged for containers supporting both the storage and theapplication workload on the same infrastructure
The hardware itself is based on standard 1U servers with Intel Xeon E5processors 10GbE networking and NVMe SSDs Internally the platform usesnetwork virtualisation (SR-IOV) to provide dedicated IO resources for eachcontainer and implement quality of service at the hardware level
The idea of QoS for containers is interesting with perhaps the challenge being
in scaling to hundreds and thousands of containers while maintaining QoS-based performance which would have to be based on policy
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dropping quickly with a range of devices to meet capacity cost and endurancerequirements Outside of that servers and controllers have also pretty muchstandardised with very little to choose between hardware from differentvendors especially at the lower end of the market
The result of this commoditisation is that storage appliances can be built fromoff the shelf components and in fact most manufacturers are doing thisthemselves The difference though is that they are choosing components witha narrow focus based on reliability and costvalue End users can build theirown with any components at the risk of compatibility SDS vendors cant testevery version of firmware drivers and OS code with every device so ingeneral things will work with common components but there may be edge caseissues that arise New Technology
So how and why are vendors bringing new hardware products to market whenSDS seems to already deliver what we need Here are some points toconsider
People like appliances unless youre at hyper-scale and can afford ateam to design test and support your own hardwaresoftware solutionsthen appliances and the support from the vendor will continue to have aplace Of course there will always be a cost-conscious bottom end of themarket where SDS can play tooNew technology continues to be developed the latest products to appearfrom storage vendors will support things like NVMe drives NVMe andPCIe fabrics to connect servers and storage At the memory level wehave non-volatile DIMMs and technology like 3D-Xpoint that canintroduce new ways to manage data
There will continue to be a place for storage appliance vendors especially atthe cutting edge of technology As this hardware commoditises it will trickledown to SDS and become easier to build rather than buy However for manypeople buying a storage appliance will always be a preferred solution
What do you think
Chris Evans
New Architecting IT Blog Posts
Hardware Still Delivering - New Products from Nimbus amp E8 (10 August2016)HPE Changes Storage Leadership - Goel out and Philbin in (4 August2016)PernixData and Nutanix - Wheres the Synergy (2 August 2016)
News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Ars Technica Seagates new 60TB SSD is the worlds largest
Seagate has unveiled the worlds largest SSD a 60-terabyte monster Pricingisnt available but the company says the drive will provide the lowest cost pergigabyte for flash memory today
Ex Citibank IT bloke wiped banks core routers will now spend 21 months inthe clink
A former employee of Citibank has been sentenced to 21 months in prison forcrippling the banks internal network Lennon Ray Brown was given the nearlytwo-year jail term ndash along with a $77000 fine ndash by a Northern Texas DistrictCourt this week after he pleaded guilty to one count of intentional damage to acomputer
Reuters More airline outages predicted as carriers grapple with 1960stechnology
Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about2000 Delta (DALN) flights this week because major carriers have not investedenough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the1960s airline industry and technology experts told Reuters
Reuters Alphabet and Amazon wind up stellar quarter for big tech
Google parent Alphabet Inc and e-commerce giant Amazoncom Inc capped ablockbuster June quarter for the five biggest US tech companies as theirdominance in key markets helped them defy the law of large numbers
Data Center Knowledge HPE Buying Supercomputer Specialist SGI for $275m
(Bloomberg) mdash Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Silicon GraphicsInternational for about $275 million in cash adding high-performancecomputing capabilities that improve data analytics
The Register Hitachi Americas CEO resigns
Hitachi Americas CEO and chairman Jack Domme has resigned with RyuichiOtsuki already in place as HDS CEO
Data Center Knowledge Winners and Losers in Gartners Magic Quadrant forIaaS
Gartner has released the results of its Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as aService for 2016 The winners in the public cloud space are innovating andadding new features rapidly while the losers are falling further and furtherbehind Herersquos a look at some of the highlights of the report
Ars Technica New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infectedcomputer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet toprevent the leakage of sensitive information it stores
The Register PC pioneer Gary Kildalls unpublished memoir revealed
The Computer History Museum has revealed part of an unpublished memoir byGary Kildall a programmer and entrepreneur who made critical contributions tothe personal computer industry in its formative years
Startup SpotlightDiamanti is a start-up focused on delivering storage for container-basedworkloads The company offers a scale-out hardware solution that can bedefined as hyper-converged for containers supporting both the storage and theapplication workload on the same infrastructure
The hardware itself is based on standard 1U servers with Intel Xeon E5processors 10GbE networking and NVMe SSDs Internally the platform usesnetwork virtualisation (SR-IOV) to provide dedicated IO resources for eachcontainer and implement quality of service at the hardware level
The idea of QoS for containers is interesting with perhaps the challenge being
in scaling to hundreds and thousands of containers while maintaining QoS-based performance which would have to be based on policy
More Information
Corporate WebsiteProduct Information
Tweet Share Forward Read Later
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Hardware Still Delivering - New Products from Nimbus amp E8 (10 August2016)HPE Changes Storage Leadership - Goel out and Philbin in (4 August2016)PernixData and Nutanix - Wheres the Synergy (2 August 2016)
News Worth ReadingClick on the links to read the full story
Ars Technica Seagates new 60TB SSD is the worlds largest
Seagate has unveiled the worlds largest SSD a 60-terabyte monster Pricingisnt available but the company says the drive will provide the lowest cost pergigabyte for flash memory today
Ex Citibank IT bloke wiped banks core routers will now spend 21 months inthe clink
A former employee of Citibank has been sentenced to 21 months in prison forcrippling the banks internal network Lennon Ray Brown was given the nearlytwo-year jail term ndash along with a $77000 fine ndash by a Northern Texas DistrictCourt this week after he pleaded guilty to one count of intentional damage to acomputer
Reuters More airline outages predicted as carriers grapple with 1960stechnology
Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about2000 Delta (DALN) flights this week because major carriers have not investedenough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the1960s airline industry and technology experts told Reuters
Reuters Alphabet and Amazon wind up stellar quarter for big tech
Google parent Alphabet Inc and e-commerce giant Amazoncom Inc capped ablockbuster June quarter for the five biggest US tech companies as theirdominance in key markets helped them defy the law of large numbers
Data Center Knowledge HPE Buying Supercomputer Specialist SGI for $275m
(Bloomberg) mdash Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Silicon GraphicsInternational for about $275 million in cash adding high-performancecomputing capabilities that improve data analytics
The Register Hitachi Americas CEO resigns
Hitachi Americas CEO and chairman Jack Domme has resigned with RyuichiOtsuki already in place as HDS CEO
Data Center Knowledge Winners and Losers in Gartners Magic Quadrant forIaaS
Gartner has released the results of its Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as aService for 2016 The winners in the public cloud space are innovating andadding new features rapidly while the losers are falling further and furtherbehind Herersquos a look at some of the highlights of the report
Ars Technica New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infectedcomputer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet toprevent the leakage of sensitive information it stores
The Register PC pioneer Gary Kildalls unpublished memoir revealed
The Computer History Museum has revealed part of an unpublished memoir byGary Kildall a programmer and entrepreneur who made critical contributions tothe personal computer industry in its formative years
Startup SpotlightDiamanti is a start-up focused on delivering storage for container-basedworkloads The company offers a scale-out hardware solution that can bedefined as hyper-converged for containers supporting both the storage and theapplication workload on the same infrastructure
The hardware itself is based on standard 1U servers with Intel Xeon E5processors 10GbE networking and NVMe SSDs Internally the platform usesnetwork virtualisation (SR-IOV) to provide dedicated IO resources for eachcontainer and implement quality of service at the hardware level
The idea of QoS for containers is interesting with perhaps the challenge being
in scaling to hundreds and thousands of containers while maintaining QoS-based performance which would have to be based on policy
More Information
Corporate WebsiteProduct Information
Tweet Share Forward Read Later
Copyright copy 2016 Brookend Ltd All rights reserved
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(Bloomberg) mdash Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Silicon GraphicsInternational for about $275 million in cash adding high-performancecomputing capabilities that improve data analytics
The Register Hitachi Americas CEO resigns
Hitachi Americas CEO and chairman Jack Domme has resigned with RyuichiOtsuki already in place as HDS CEO
Data Center Knowledge Winners and Losers in Gartners Magic Quadrant forIaaS
Gartner has released the results of its Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as aService for 2016 The winners in the public cloud space are innovating andadding new features rapidly while the losers are falling further and furtherbehind Herersquos a look at some of the highlights of the report
Ars Technica New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infectedcomputer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet toprevent the leakage of sensitive information it stores
The Register PC pioneer Gary Kildalls unpublished memoir revealed
The Computer History Museum has revealed part of an unpublished memoir byGary Kildall a programmer and entrepreneur who made critical contributions tothe personal computer industry in its formative years
Startup SpotlightDiamanti is a start-up focused on delivering storage for container-basedworkloads The company offers a scale-out hardware solution that can bedefined as hyper-converged for containers supporting both the storage and theapplication workload on the same infrastructure
The hardware itself is based on standard 1U servers with Intel Xeon E5processors 10GbE networking and NVMe SSDs Internally the platform usesnetwork virtualisation (SR-IOV) to provide dedicated IO resources for eachcontainer and implement quality of service at the hardware level
The idea of QoS for containers is interesting with perhaps the challenge being
in scaling to hundreds and thousands of containers while maintaining QoS-based performance which would have to be based on policy
More Information
Corporate WebsiteProduct Information
Tweet Share Forward Read Later
Copyright copy 2016 Brookend Ltd All rights reserved
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in scaling to hundreds and thousands of containers while maintaining QoS-based performance which would have to be based on policy
More Information
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Tweet Share Forward Read Later
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