* Posts by Valdis A Filks

2 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2015

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

Valdis A Filks

Put one of these in the Drax power station and stop burning fake renewables, biomass and wood chip. Because these are so small, it is possible to put more than one in a power plant, which is also good from a service perspective, because you can shut one down at a time without losing all the power. So these can go into the newly closed down sites such as Wylfa and Hunterston. This is a good quick, zero CO2, renewable, sustainable, safe way to produce low cost electricity, reduce CO2, solve climate change and create UK jobs. Next step export them to replace coal and gas power stations in Africa and Asia. Good to put them in existing nuclear, biomass, coal, gas power stations because you do not need to build new expensive transmission lines.

Storage BLOG-OFF: HP's Johnson squares up to EMC's Chad Sakac

Valdis A Filks

All of these factors were taken into account.

Hi Zerolab,

Not sure if you are a Gartner client, but if you can please read the Critical Capabilities for Solid State Arrays http://www.gartner.com/document/2834717, Also, please have a look at this post from Chris Mellor; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/13/gartner_ranks_startups_ahead_of_emc_hp_and_ibm/. Gartner produces two reports for two different audiences. The MQ reviews companies, that is vendors on their ability to succeed. The Critical Capabilities (CC) reviews vendors products on their suitability for workloads and the products features. There are links to them here http://blogs.gartner.com/valdis-filks/2014/08/29/solid-state-array-magic-quadrant-and-critical-capabilities-published/. The discussion here is more orientated to the technical aspects of solid state arrays, so you should really reference the CC, which does explain the points which you mention above. If you are a Gartner client please organise a call and we can have a chat.