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The Storage Tipping Point

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Re: The Storage Tipping Point

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I think the storage company Nimble may have figured this out.

Not really, just an auto-tiering hybrid array, next generation storage subsystems i.e. those leveraging NVRAM are where we will likely stop talking blocks and start talking bytes just like we do to DRAM today. To get the greatest benefit of NVRAM the entire IO stack needs overhauling.

Re: The Storage Tipping Point

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What makes you think they have? Do you have a blog post or statistical data that supports this notion? Please, share!

Not yet but the rep is taking us to the big game— a fully catered private box. I'm sure I'll hear about it there.

If they had truly solved this problem they wouldn't need to take you to "the big game" to do sales - you'd be taking them to "the big game" to be customers...

Re: The Storage Tipping Point

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Wait till memresistors get here. That will basically eliminate the distinction between ram and disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#1808 "They can potentially be fashioned into non-volatile solid-state memory, which would allow greater data density than hard drives with access times similar to DRAM, replacing both components.[14] HP prototyped a crossbar latch memory that can fit 100 gigabits in a square cen…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9810324

They seem to be here.

Re: The Storage Tipping Point

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True. Add that many "inventions" in virtualization field were in VM/370 in... the 70's. Including running itself on itself which has been celebrated in several news articles for different prototypes over the past few years. Except that was a production system. ;)

Add that IBM tried to kill VM multiple times, and wanted everyone using System/360 to standardize around OS/360. "The Mythical Man-Month" is the story of OS/360. Hence VM still exists.

Lol @ last line. Well-put.

Re: The Storage Tipping Point

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What makes you think they have? Do you have a blog post or statistical data that supports this notion? Please, share!

Not yet but the rep is taking us to the big game— a fully catered private box. I'm sure I'll hear about it there.

What is this "big game"? Are they taking you to a sporting event?

Sporting events seem like an inefficient place to transfer technical details. They're rather distracting.

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