In a previous post, I introduced CRIPS – a measurement of the processing power of a CPU (core) based on SPEC CPU Integer Rate. The higher the CRIPS rating, the better a processor is in terms of performance per physical…
Looking back and forward
I have been enjoying a short holiday in which I decided to totally disconnect from work for a while and re-charge my battery. So while many bloggers and authors in our industry were making predictions for 2013, I was doing…
Monkey Business
Maybe you have heard the story of the Monkey Experiment. It is about an experiment with a bunch of monkeys in a cage, a ladder, and a banana. At a certain point one of the monkeys sees the banana hanging…
Thin Provisioning
Some customers ask us – not surprisingly – how they can reduce their total cost of ownership in their information infrastructure even more. In response, I sometimes ask them what the utilization is of their storage systems. Their answer: often…
Innovation with Flash Drives – part 1
This is an article I wrote a while ago (mid 2009), a while after EMC introduced Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD’s) and albeit a bit outdated, it is a valid introduction to Enterprise Flash Drive technology. It also explains the differences…