Solid State Drives (SSDs) that leverage the PCIe bus provide the ultimate storage I/O performance boost by providing the CPU with direct access to zero-latency storage. But all PCIe SSDs are not created equal. There is room for advancing the…
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Advancing the State of the Art in PCIe SSD
Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, MLC, Multi-level cell, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Product Analysis
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How to Solve the SSD Endurance Problem
As the storage medium for main memory DRAM is where the processing work gets done in application servers. It’s generally the fastest mass produced data storage area available and can support the nearly unlimited cycle of writes and overwrites that…
Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, NVDIMM, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking
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Nimble Solves The Scale-Up or Scale-Out Dilemma
Nimble has recognized the challenge of growing storage systems in a performance-critical environment. With traditional, scale-up storage architectures, as more disk capacity is added storage controllers can become the bottleneck, causing performance to suffer. In scale-out storage systems, an appliance…
The Requirements for Cloud Storage Infrastructure
Cloud storage is becoming a ubiquitous term, subject to a wide variety of definitions. In the context of this article cloud storage will refer to a storage service that’s provided by an organization to storage users. That organization can be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Object, Object Storage, Protection
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Solving Hadoop Storage Challenges by Converging Storage and Compute
Cleversafe’s object-based, scale-out storage architecture leverages a unique information dispersal algorithm to distribute data objects across multiple storage nodes (called Slicestor ** nodes). These nodes can be located in a single data center or spread around the world. Using a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Big data, Cleversafe, Data center, Hadoop, Hardware, HDFS, MapReduce, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
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Solving the RMAN Backup Challenge
Database applications are typically the lifeblood of organizations, supporting revenue generating activities and/or mission critical business data analysis. Database administrators are the stewards of this infrastructure and often have an almost personal interest in the welfare of these precious information…
Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, DD Boost, Disaster recovery, Oracle, Oracle RMAN, RMAN
Posted in Product Analysis
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What is Backup Appliance Sprawl – and how to stop it
Appliances have arguably become the de facto product format for new technologies in IT for a number of reasons. They’re complete systems that typically don’t require other components and their ‘plug and play’ implementation is simpler than the software and…
Tagged with: Appliance Sprawl, Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton
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Highly Available, High Capacity SSD Solves Application Latency Problems
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has been building high performance, solid state storage systems for over three decades, laying claim to the “fastest storage on the planet” with their World’s Fastest Storage® trademark. The RamSan-720 added to this legacy with hardware…
Tagged with: Capacity, Density, Efficiency, eMLC, Flash, HA, Latency, RAID, Ramsan, SSD, Texas Memory
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Why Flash Wears Out and How to Make it Last Longer
The life expectancy and durability of flash-based storage is a common topic in many presentations involving solid-state drive (SSD) products. While flash endurance is a prime factor in the economics of this technology, seldom is the audience given an explanation…
Tagged with: Bit Error Rate, ECC, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, HGST, MLC, Multi-level cell, Solid-state drive, SSD, sTec
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