Likewise Software, headquartered in Bellevue Washington, has expertise in networking protocols, platform interoperability as well as identity and access management. They entered into the storage marketplace to develop a SMB/CIFS stack for several OEM vendors that were looking to support…
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As an SSD Supplier, LSI isn’t just a Flash in the Pan
Flash technologies are certainly a hot topic in storage and IT these days. A lot of new companies are coming onto the market with exciting new products. There’s one company that’s somewhat of a fixture in the storage industry but…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, LSI, LSI Corporation, NetApp, Solid-state drive
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Posted in Briefing Note
Advancing The State Of Solid State Caching
Most applications could benefit from a faster infrastructure. Storage performance, especially IOPS, has been routinely identified as a primary impediment to improving compute infrastructure speed. Not surprisingly, customers are turning to Flash Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a solution to…
Tagged with: Cache (computing), Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
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What Are IOPS? and why should you care?
In a recent article, “What is I/O and why should you care”, we discussed what input and output (I/O) operations are and how a storage system’s ability to support these I/Os is a finite resource, one that’s arguably as important…
Tagged with: Computer data storage, Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RPM, Solid-state drive, Storage
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What is I/O? – And Why Should You Care?
Recording data to a storage device requires two things, a place to put those bytes and a way to get them written to that device. Capacity is the first thing we think of when talking about a storage system, and…
Tagged with: Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RAID, Storage, Subsystems
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Dedupe Benefits Mainframes as it does Open Systems
Historically, tape as a storage medium in the open systems world has had issues with performance, complexity, reliability and cost, compared with disk systems. The mainframe market has encountered many of these same issues with tape as a backup solution,…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, Dedupe, Deduplication, EMC, LTO, Open Systems, Tape, Virtual Tape Library
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Pay Attention to Flash Controllers when Comparing SSD Systems
Solid State Disk (SSD) storage devices now commonly use flash memory as the media on which they record data. Flash has driven the SSD cost per capacity significantly below that of DRAM based SSD and flash is narrowing the lead…
Tagged with: DRAM, ECC, Flash memory, MLC, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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