While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction
Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Boosting Server Performance
SSD Performance Accelerated A typical flash implementation constitutes less than 1% of the overall storage provisioned in a typical production environment. Consequently, systems planners have to exercise extreme prudence when deciding how to best utilize flash storage. They have to…
Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Intel, IOPS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Dealing With The Copy Data Explosion
For many years now, IT storage professionals have had to cope with the seemingly unfettered growth of data across the business environment. The lion’s share of data growth by far, however, is not caused by ordinary, day-to-day business activity, but…
Affordable High Performance PCIe SSD
Server Side Flash Acceleration Application owners that have not deployed server side SSD have generally relied on storage administrators to address I/O issues. Despite their best efforts, storage admins are a resource in high demand and as a result, they…
Maximize SQL Performance By Integrating SSD Software & Hardware
Getting the most performance impact from a flash purchase involves more than just buying fast hardware or efficient caching software. Both of these components must work together to maximize their use of processing power that’s available. The hardware certainly must…
Tagged with: caching software, IOPS, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, performance impact, software process, Solid-state drive, SQL, SQL applications, ZD-XL SQL Accelerator
Posted in Blog, Video
Posted in Blog, Video
Avoiding Cache Rebuilds in VMware
Using a flash based solid state disk (SSD) or PCIe SSD inside a virtual host to act as a high speed local cache brings many performance benefits but it also brings some challenges. One of those challenges is what to…
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The Cost of Over-Provisioning Flash Arrays
All-Flash Arrays have to overcome two key obstacles when trying to gain acceptance as storage systems which can be utilized across a wide number of use cases in the data center. First, they must be durable and secondly, they must…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data center, Flash memory, Skyera, Solid State, Solid-state drive
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Posted in Article
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