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DDR PHY Cartoon from Denali

Editor:- November 17, 2009 - Denali Software today published a simple cartoon style guide which introduces the complexities involved in designing DDR PHY.

What's a DDR PHY? - To quote one of the captions - "I sit between the memory controller and I/O pads and make your SoC shine!"

Even if you're not a chip level storage designer - appreciation of these design issues are helpful to an understanding of product architectures, strengths, weaknesses and adaptibility.

New Book - Oracle Performance Tuning with SSDs
Editor:- October 9, 2009 - some of the technical folks at Texas Memory Systems have contributed to a new book called - Oracle Performance Tuning with SSDs - written by Oracle expert, Mike Ault.

This is part of an august collection of Oracle tuning books published by Rampant Press.

"Solid State Disk storage is changing the game for Oracle databases, and how we think about performance tuning," said Mike Ault. "Whereas in the past a poorly-designed database might take 6 months and $500,000 in consulting costs to repair, simply installing an SSD can mean the database immediately runs more than 10x faster for a fraction of the cost of repairing the source code. We wrote the book specifically for DBAs so that they could easily understand the benefits and limitations of SSD in their specific circumstances, and have all the tools they need to benchmark effectively. Any DBA who wants to keep their performance tuning skills relevant will read this book."


SSD Education - Size of the Problem
Editor:- July 9, 2009 - One of the recurring themes in my 1 on 1 dialogs with SSD vendors and users alike is the importance of better education about this important subject.

One of my frustrations has been my own inability to convey the idea of how much needs to be known - compared to what is.

So I make no apology for recycling this text below - which I wrote in an email today.

"User education about SSDs is the most serious problem the industry faces. Users need to make local decisions about which info to filter in or out for their own needs and at what level to engage with this technology. It's as if users had to learn all about the microprocessor from the 4040 and microcontrollers up to today's dense 64 bit multi-core server chips in 2 years instead of 30 years."

...Later:- If it's any consolation to those of you out there - struggling to build a solid mental pyramid out of SSD's shifting sands - some SSD product managers - who have been parachuted into new roles - don't understand the technology or market they're talking about either. Which just adds to the total confusion.


New Book on Forensic Data Recovery

Editor:- June 4, 2009 - Ontrack this week announced availability of the second 2nd edition of the American Bar Association book, "Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now."

The authors, both have strong connections to Ontrack and more than 20 years combined experience in the legal technology industry.

New Book on Enterprise Storage
Editor:- May 7, 2009 - EMC has published a new book (480 pages $60) - "Information Storage and Management".

The book's 40 contributing writers cover the evolution of storage technology, including traditional deployment, consolidated storage networking and storage virtualization, while also addressing the most prevalent storage technologies, including direct attached storage (DAS), networked attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), content addressed storage (CAS), and IP SAN.

Here's a quote from the intro... "Not long ago, information storage was seen as only a bunch of disks or tapes attached to the back of the computer to store data..."

Yes - I remember those bad old days (pre 1998) before people thought of storage as a single market. It sounds like an interesting book.

You can never learn too much about storage. The 9 year old classic Storage Architecture Guide is still a popular article today.


CommVault Announces Online Training and Certification Programs

Oceanport, NJ - November 24, 2008 - CommVault today announced a new web-based training program intended for personnel responsible for the day-to-day administration and management of its software.

The first of these classes, the CommVault Simpana Administration class, is also available at CommVault Education Centers and as a Customer Onsite course. This class is intended for users looking to improve the overall data access, protection and management capabilities for their data center operations. ...CommVault profile

Solid Data Expands SSD Services
SANTA CLARA, CA - January 29, 2008) - Solid Data Systems, Inc. today announced the expansion of its professional services organization.

This group helps users optimize the use of SSDs in high transaction rate applications and is aligned by vertical industry expertise. Solid Data's services program offers free initial phone consultation, on-site architectural assessment and evaluation, and technical and cost analysis on proposed SSD-based architectural solutions.

"In the past SSDs were often used as quick fixes, only replacing key hot files," said Mark Hayashida, CTO of Solid Data Systems. "The mission of Solid Data Professional Services is to introduce architectures specifically designed around solid state disk storage. These architectures bring more than performance to high transaction rate environments. Once the limitation of mechanical disk drives is removed, the resulting systems are simpler, use much less power, and reduce the number of servers required. In addition, peak transaction capacity is dramatically increased, virtually eliminating server crashes due to overload. In properly architected systems the savings more than compensate for the additional cost of the SSD..." ...Solid Data Systems profile

Editor's comments:-
this is a welcome move because as new vendors enter the enterprise SSD market - there will be many examples of the technology being mis-sold for applications which get no real benefit because the SSDs have been deployed incorrectly. That's like hitching a Porsche to plow your field. It may have the horsepower - but it's not going to go any faster than the John Deere... There's no substitute for expertise when deploying this technology.
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suggested by - Gary Drossel, VP of Product Planning, WD Solid State Storage
Here's an article written by or about WD Solid State Storage

NAND Evolution and its Effects on SSD Useable Life

Gary Drossel says he chose this article because reliability is the main driving force for WD Solid State Storage and its customers.

The article shows why calculations based on models of flash SSD writes in 24/7 applications can result in wear-out estimates which are over optimistic by an order of magnitude due to write amplification and wear-leveling inefficiency. That's why the company recommends using the real-time endurance data logging tool (SiSMART) built into its SiliconDrives for a day, week or month, in a prototype / pilot system before full-scale deployment. The data collected can be used to either confirm that there is adequate safety margin in the application - or used to initiate software or other system design changes to adjust the extrapolated life within acceptable limits.

Other SSD article suggestions...

Solid State Storage Initiative - published by SNIA

Gary Drossel says he recommends this bookmark because - "It discusses SNIA activities relative to bringing SSD technology into the data center. And it has links to a couple of white papers, articles and research resources about solid state storage."

Editor:- thanks Gary for sharing your SSD links.

see also:- WD Solid State Storage - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com

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