Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack has an article entitled, “Is It Time To Stop Worrying About Flash Wear Out?” We’ll discuss that with Micron’s Doug Rollins. You can learn more about this by reading Eric’s article by clicking here.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Securing Hybrid Cloud Storage From Big Brother
During a recent webinar that Storage Switzerland held with Avere Systems, the audience was asked what their top concerns were when using cloud storage. Not surprisingly, the majority of the respondents stated “performance” and “security”. In fact, anecdotally we have…
Is it Time to Stop Worrying about Flash Wear Out?
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
Tagged with: Controller, Flash, Flash Wear, HDD, Micron, NAND, SSD, Total Bytes Written
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i
LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions, this product integrates PCIe flash, caching software and LSI’s MegaRAID technology into…
CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP
Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…
Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Tagged with: Cache, Cache Acceleration, Density, DRAM, Hypervisor, Intel, NAS, performance, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
File Storage vs Object Storage?
The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Replication, File Storage, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Object, Object Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
ChalkTalk Video: Server-side Flash Types and Use Cases
Putting flash in the application server is becoming the performance solution of choice, but how do you choose which type of flash to use? Let’s start by taking a look at the different types of SSDs available for use in…
Webinar Preview: Picking the right SSD for the job – Podcast
Micron’s Doug Rollins and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack talk about SSD and how to pick the right SSD for a specific job in your data center. This is a preview of a webinar coming up on May 14…
Tagged with: Doug Rollins, Eric Slack, Flash, Flash memory, Micron, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Switzerland, Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack, tools, Webinar
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape
The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, CIFS, Compression, Crossroads, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, NAS, NFS
Posted in Article
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