BitMicro is announcing a new line of PCIe flash cards to address a need in the market for higher capacity server-side SSDs. Historically focused on military and industrial applications, the MaxIO SSD line should give BitMicro a solution that also…
Yearly Archives: 2014
BitMicro’s 6TB PCIe provides high-capacity Server-side Flash option
Tagged with: BitMicro, Flash, High Capacity, IOPS, PCIe, Server-side, Solid State, SSD
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New Non-Volatile Memory Technology lowers cost of production
Contour Semiconductor is developing a new non-volatile memory that leverages Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology and some other innovations to simplify the design process and provide better performance and endurance. Diode Transistor Memory Contour’s Diode Transistor Memory (DTM) technology uses…
Tagged with: Contour Semiconductor, Efficiency, Endurance, Flash memory, Memory, performance, Solid State
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Dell – Delivering Flash the way customers want
Flash consumption by the enterprise data center is typically done as a response to a specific performance problem. The flash purchase that often results are typically either an all-new flash array or it is added to an existing array. The…
Tagged with: Compellent, Data migration, Dell, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, SLC
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Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach at Flash Memory Summit
Hybrid arrays vendors were out to get some respect at the Flash Memory Summit. Tegile was one of them, but their approach to hybrid systems has a distinctive all-flash feel. Their recently announced T3800 is an all-flash array that can…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid, IOPS, Replication, Reverse Hybrid Array, Tegile
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Application Centric Caching
At Flash Memory Summit, we sat down with the team from CacheBox, an emerging provider of server-side caching software. Their software CacheAdvance is a software-only, hardware agnostic, server-side caching solution. What makes the CacheBox solution unique is that it does…
Tagged with: Application Cache, Block Level Acceleration, Cache, CacheBox, Flash, I/O, MS-SQL, Server-side
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What to Expect from Next Gen Data Protection Solutions – Podcast
Data is changing. Not only is it growing, but it is becoming more valuable. That means backup and recovery is becoming more important. Scott Baker from HP’s Data Protection Division and Storage Switzerland founder George Crump join me to talk…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Comprehensive Data Protection, Data recovery, Disaster recovery, HP, HP Backup and Recovery, Protection
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Enterprise Backup or VM Specific Backup Software?
Most vendors seem to think that selecting which backup solution to use in the data center should be a choice of either an enterprise backup or virtual machine-specific backup solution. Enterprise backup provides legacy, multi-platform protection, but often only spotty…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Data Protection, Dell, Hyper-V, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Q&A: StarWind and StorageSwiss Answer Hyper-V Storage Questions
A company needs to upgrade its IT equipment to keep up with increasing storage demand. The question is, “Will the new technology that’s supposed to save me money actually cost me money?” Joining Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst in our recent…
Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
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Nimble’s Adaptive Flash extends the range of Hybrid Arrays
Choosing a storage system has always involved tradeoffs, often between performance and capacity. This has been the case with flash-based systems where buyers have typically decided on hybrid arrays when capacity was more important and all-flash arrays when performance was…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, All-Flash, Capacity, CASL, Cluster, Flash, Nimble, performance, SSD
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Storage Wrap for August 1 – Podcast
Depressing earnings news, a buyout and looking at our latest articles. It’s all part of the Storage Wrap for Friday, August 1. Joining me are George Crump, Colm Keegan and Eric Slack. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Newsletter
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