As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…
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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?
Tagged with: Backup, backup system, Data Protection, Data recovery, Incremental backup, Nimble Storage, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…
Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What Is Storage Caching?
A cache in a manufacturing environment is an intermediate store of components or partially assembled products, often referred to as “in-process inventory”, that serves to make the overall production process more efficient. In a computer system, caches, also called “buffers”,…
Tagged with: Cache, CPU cache, Disk array, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, FlashSoft, SanDisk, Storage, Top10-2013, What Is
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
New Report – Reducing Storage Latency by putting Flash on the Memory Bus
Application performance is increasingly affected by the performance of the underlying storage, and storage performance is inextricably tied to latency. For this reason reducing latency and increasing its predictability has become the ‘holy grail’ of high-performance storage designs. And while…
Tagged with: Data storage device, Flash memory, Latency (engineering), PCI Express
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
Innovation plus Longevity Wins in the Web-scale Market
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) this year, someone brought up a blog I’d written after a previous AIS event where an LSI executive said they had a RAID stack that was 25 years old. What popped into my mind…
Tagged with: Flash memory controller, LSI, PCI Express, RAID, SandForce, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive
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WD’s New SMB Backup Appliances Leverage Arkeia Software
At the beginning of this year, WD acquired Arkeia, a company with a long history in the primary backup software market. Arkeia was known in the industry as a technology leader in deduplication, with technology they acquired from Kadena Systems…
Tagged with: Arkeia, Network-attached storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Standard RAID levels, USB 3.0, VMware, Western Digital
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
WD’s New Storage Appliance Makes an Ideal First Server and more
As one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world, Western Digital certainly knows storage products and they’re in a position to be a value leader in this NAS market as well. As a first server, WD’s line…
Tagged with: Microsoft Windows, Servers, Storage, Western Digital, Windows Azure
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Performance, Interface Flexibility and Encryption in Mid-range Array
In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…
Tagged with: Big data, Disk array, Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, IOPS, ISCSI, SAS, Serial attached SCSI, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
How to Reduce Server-side Cache Risk
Storage caching enables the use of a very fast storage area, typically flash, to intelligently store the most frequently accessed data objects and improve application performance. Server-side caching uses one of a variety of flash based SSDs internal to the…
Tagged with: Cache (computing), FlashSoft, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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Posted in Article
How SMBs can Meet Enterprise Performance Expectations
Small to medium sized businesses aren’t in the enterprise category but their users certainly have enterprise expectations. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump calls it the “Facebook-ing of IT”, in reference to the always-on, always-available services that big cloud and social…
Tagged with: Disk array, Disk storage, Flash memory, Fusion-io, QOS, USB flash drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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