When creating or testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan most IT professionals tend to focus on getting the data out of the building and safely stored in a remote location. Much of the success or failure of a DR plan…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Integrating PCIe SSD Into The Storage System
The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage…
Highly Available Solid State Storage Performance
Getting the absolute maximum performance from Flash-based storage and providing shared access across multiple servers typically requires a solid state storage appliance. These systems are designed specifically to eliminate bottlenecks and latency to deliver extreme performance. However, most of these…
Tagged with: Flash, HA, RAID, Ramsan, Solid State, Texas Memory, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
As an SSD Supplier, LSI isn’t just a Flash in the Pan
Flash technologies are certainly a hot topic in storage and IT these days. A lot of new companies are coming onto the market with exciting new products. There’s one company that’s somewhat of a fixture in the storage industry but…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, LSI, LSI Corporation, NetApp, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Downsides to Array Based Data Replication
Array based replication is the ability to have data automatically copied to a remote site creating the foundation of a solid disaster recovery strategy and as a result many storage arrays have a replication option. In fact many vendors provide…
What is a Storage Controller?
Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…
Tagged with: Central processing unit, Controller, Data center, dual controller, Fibre Channel, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD, storage array, Storage Controller, Storage Hypervisor, storage system, storage systems
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
OCZ SSD Keeps Shining
This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working…
AKiTio Taurus Super Mini S
A new addition to the Storage Switzerland Lab is the AKiTio Super Mini S. This is a small, somewhat portable dual drive storage device that can either stripe or mirror two 2.5″ hard drives. While some assembly is required I…
Tagged with: Akitio, Backup, Booting, Hard disk drive, IEEE 1394, RAID, Solid-state drive, Standard RAID levels, Test Drive
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
What Is RAID – Part 1
This article on RAID – Part 1, is one of an ongoing series of articles in the Storage Switzerland “What Is” series. These articles provide a refresher on key fundamentals of various storage technologies, for those who are new to,…
The Big Data Archive
“Big Data” is often thought of as a specialized use case involving machine generated data, typically associated with web search logs, satellite imagery or other sensor data, on which analytics are performed to enable some sort of decision support application.…
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