olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it
Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs
Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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Using All-Flash Arrays To Solve Tier-1 Database Problems
To solve tier-1 database performance problems, it is important to understand the nature of tier-1 applications. Standard definitions of tier-1 include: (i) extremely high cost, extremely high performance applications – sometimes referred to as “tier-0” (e.g., Wall Street trading platforms)…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Hard disk drive, High Availability, RAID
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What Are Integrated Backup Appliances?
A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which…
How To Design a 2 Million IOPS Storage Architecture
In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…
EMC’s ViPR Unleashed
Shipping one Exabyte of storage was a milestone that took EMC ten years to reach. Amazingly, in 2013, EMC was able to reach that same heady number in just one month’s worth of storage shipments. Clearly, business is good at…
The Million IOPS Data Center
Storage Switzerland recently completed a lab audit of a test performed by Brocade, Emulex and Violin Memory that achieved over two million IOPS. The report is available now and you can get a copy of it by attending our webinar,…
Cloud File Convenience with Local File Security
The benefits of universal access to needed documents and the ability to share these files is very appealing. People want the option to do work wherever they are, with whomever they want to, on whatever device is at hand. It’s…
Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud
Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…
Tagged with: Agentless, Archive, Asigra, Backup, Cloud, NAS, Recovery, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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