[williesleg]

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

[stephengillie]

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

[droopyEyelids]

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.

[JupiterMoon]

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...

[stephengillie]

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.

[robotresearcher]

So their prices are for storage and the big game. Big sales seems so wasteful.

[KaiserPro]

Nope. Nimble use a log storage format similar to that of Netapp and ZFS.

Their performance special source is using the minimum amount of flash to provide a performance boost over standard HDDs.

They also have very nice analytics.

They are good for VMware/virtualisation. For general file storage, unless they have changed recently, is pretty mediocre.

[philipw]

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.

[pkaye]

I thought they just run a rack full of managed SSDs?