Cloud Computing & the Psychology of Mine
Cloud Computing & the Psychology of Mine Legacy Thinking in the Evolving Datacenter The 1957 Warner Brothers* cartoon “Ali Baba Bunny” shows a scene where an elated Daffy Duck bounds about a pile...
View Article24 months of Intel SSDs…. What we’ve learned about MLC in the enterprise…
24 months of Intel SSDs…. What we’ve learned about MLC in the enterprise… The Enterprise Integration Center (EIC) private cloud lab (a joint Intel IT and Intel Architecture Group program) has been...
View ArticleWhy data center solid state drives (SSDs)!
Why choose a data center class SSD... In my recent travels, I’ve had a number of questions from end users about the differences between data center series and client series Intel’s SSDs. Folks have...
View Article20 Questions on SSD: #1 – Is your SSD qualified for production?
20 Questions on SSD: Things you’ll want to ask. Question #1: Is your SSD qualified for production? This is the 1st in a series of blogs where we’ll explore a number a questions we regularly receive and...
View Article20 Questions on SSD: Which SSD is right for your workload?
Question #2: Which SSD is right for your workload? In the 1st blog of our 20 questions on SSD series, we looked at whether or not your SSD was qualified by your OEM, opening the gateway to the...
View Article20 Questions on SSD: #3 – Is your SSD protected from unplanned power loss?
20 Questions on SSD: Things you’ll want to ask. Question #3 - Is your SSD protected from unplanned power loss? In the 1st and 2nd blogs of our 20 questions on SSD series, we looked at production/OEM...
View Article20 Questions on SSD #4: How consistent is the performance of your SSD?
20 Questions on SSD: Things you’ll want to ask. Question #4: How consistent is the performance of your SSD? In the last few blogs of our 20 questions on SSD series, we looked at OEM qualification,...
View Article20 Questions on SSD #5: Temp, Tier, and Cache + Intel SSD
20 Questions on SSD: Things you’ll want to ask Question #5: How can I use Temp, Tier, and Cache + Intel SSD? So it’s been a few weeks since my last blog and I want to switch gears away from talking...
View ArticleSSD: Throw out your hard disks!
Throw out your hard disks: Revisited! My original blog from October of 2008! has been getting a bunch of traffic lately and is linked below but frankly... things have changed quite a bit in 6 years, so...
View ArticleIntel SSD P3700 Series – NVMe Efficiency
Intel SSD P3700 Series - NVMe Efficiency Intel recently announced our SSD Data Center Family for PCIe products. You can find a link to the main page for the new PCIe drives on Intel.com here. Needless...
View ArticleTurn and face the strange… IT Changes :-)
David Bowie’s 1971 song ‘Changes’ includes the phrase, “Turn and face the strange… Ch-ch-changes”… one of my wife’s favorite recollections of my step-daughter at age 4 or 5, belting out Bowie the way...
View ArticleChris’s SSD Blog Index
Index of Chris's Blogs! Here's an index of blogs, will update these as I add and change content! Don't forget to check out my buddy Frank's blogs, too. More great content! Thanks for reading! - Chris...
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