* Posts by ManOfFewWords

6 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Feb 2014

Early to embed and early to rise? Western Digital drops veil on SweRVy RISC-V based designs

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True for laptops and desktops, but most servers are now shipping with 10GbE and supporting 25GbE as an option.

Everyone's all like 'stick it in the cloud!' What of the mad lads pushing data closer to compute?

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Re: 100,000µs or above???

Yes, but they're talking about 100 (or 200) microseconds latency, not 100 (or 200) milliseconds.

Excelero hooks up with Broadcom to tag team NVMe over fabrics

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Re: exceptionally low latency

Nobody benefits from high latency, but some applications appreciate low latency more than others!

FibreChannel dead? Nonsense, says Brocade, here's our Gen 6 kit

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Re: FC, Infiniband, who cares anyway...

Explaining the ups and downs of the stock market is not always easy, but if you look at the Mellanox public earnings reports, you'll see that its been a story of continuous revenue growth since early 2013. Whether it's InfiniBand, Ethernet, or both, Mellanox has been growing nicely.

Disclosure: I am a Mellanox employee.

Compute+storage upstart Nutanix reveals $200m-plus run rate

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Re: Posting a comment here because ...

That sounds like a Marvin thing to say

Infinidat quietly files 39 patents. Let's take a closer look

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Predict storage startup exit plans like Yoda

Sell this to EMC or IBM, he will try.