Many of the IT professionals who came to VMworld this week are facing the same situations, they’re looking at flash to increase VM density and improve overall performance. One way is by putting that flash into the host server, particularly…
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Backup or Replication?
Data protection can be challenging since virtualized applications typically have various recovery point and recovery time (RPO/RTO) objectives. Replication provides applications with near zero RPOs and when configured with redundant server infrastructure, it can also provide near instantaneous RTO. But…
Memory Bus Flash delivers vSAN Performance Acceleration
Software defined storage solutions like vSAN are gaining increased attention. But vSAN systems can only support one flash device. The challenge is one flash device may not be enough to handle all the I/O throughput from multiple applications. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, CPU, Diablo, DIMM, Flash, MCS, Memory, Memory Bus Flash, Memory Channel Storage, Software Defined, VSAN
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The role of All-Flash for NoSQL Databases
Traditional databases, like Oracle and MS-SQL, have been around for decades. But thanks to the emerging mega trends of big data, big users and cloud computing, a new class of database is starting to work its way into the enterprise:…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Data Protection, Efficiency, NoSQL, performance, Pure
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Does Flash make everything in VMware Better?
Bacon makes everything taste better – at least for a lot of folks. At VMworld we met up with Micron, the flash manufacturers who are calling themselves “VMware’s bacon”. Their point is that flash makes everything in a virtual server…
The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
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How to get MacBook Air VDI Performance at a Chromebook price
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents some real challenges for companies looking to replace their inventories of desktop PCs. It has to provide a desktop experience that’s acceptable to users and an infrastructure that costs the same or less than the…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Cost Effective, Deduplication, Desktop Density, Hypervisor, performance, VDI, Virtual desktop
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OCZ’s Enterprise SATA SSDs deliver consistently better performance
Flash is replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more environments, and not just as boot drives for PCs and laptops. Enterprises are turning to a new class of high performance SATA-based drive form-factor SSDs to accelerate databases, push…
All-Flash Architectures Matter
Flash can improve the performance of almost anything that it’s placed into, be it a laptop, a desktop, a server or a storage system. But to derive maximum benefit from a flash investment requires first that the combined workloads be…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HP, performance
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The Unified Cloud WAN
Prior to the cloud era, most business information stayed on the corporate WAN. But now more corporate data traffic is going over the internet to sites like Salesforce.com, Dropbox and AWS. The problem is IT has limited visibility and control…
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