One Hit (To The Body), STEC's and Compellent's that is, appears to have happened today. And, I'll 'fess up, I never saw it coming. OCZ, which had looked like a mix of prosumer/consumer SSD builder, is now shipping Enterprise parts. Who knew??? And the stated price is $300-$500. Either some OEM is willing to take a really big chance, or the cost of Enterprise SSD just went over a cliff.
Here's hoping for the latter. Do you get it? SSD for only 2 to 3 times the cost up front!! Not the 10 times (or more) it has been. And if the buyer is EMC???? STEC's corporate sphincter just got puckered.
The devices are the Deneva line, which they only announced back in October? They run SandForce's SF-2000 controllers, and will be shipping by February!! "Watson, the game's afoot."
As I was composing this missive, came word of the Compellent smash, and it's not a technical problem. Compellent is an early adopter of STEC SSD. Months ago, you may remember, a rival, 3PAR, was the hockey puck in a takeover game. Compellent's share rose, a lot, in sympathy, and kept going. Today's story has it that the company is going to Dell, but for substantially less than the share bid up by all those plungers. Irrational exuberance strikes again.
Despite what the reactionaries assert, the world is not flat nor is it hierarchical. The world is relational. Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious
$536,800,000 MARF™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)
Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't
believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders. -- Drew Weissman/2022
To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have
seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past
performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business
logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector,
what is dimensionality reduction.
-- Christopher Wylie/2018
... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having
a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.
-- Linus Torvalds/2007
-- Chris Date/2009
This week's thought
Investigative reporters are an idiosyncratic breed of journalist. Typically fearless, they are often a source of angina to their editors. Mr. Walsh was no exception. -- Michael S. Rosenwald/2024 [no surprise - I spent a bit of time on Jack Anderson's staff]
In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode machines, there is no reason not to
build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.
About
- Robert Young
- Been doing databases, both relational and others, as well as operations research since Hector was a Pup.
Shameless Plug
I know a little something about SQL, DB2 (preferably LUW, z/OS if the money's right), Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and database design in general. Mentoring/teaching/consulting on a short term basis, too. And a bit of stat analysis if it's R.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
gnuoytr at rcn dot com.
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