Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…
Blog Archives
Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, FMS2017, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Snapshot, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What is Hybrid Flash 2.0?
Originally, hybrid flash arrays solved a price problem. Hybrid Flash 2.0 solves a performance problem. In their first iteration, these systems were designed to bridge the gap between expensive flash storage and more affordable hard disk drive storage. But as…
Making Storage Class Memory DIMMs a Reality – Netlist Briefing Note
Storage Class Memory is a technology that places memory and storage on what looks like a standard DIMM board. The DIMM is installed in the memory channel similar to a DRAM DIMM. Supporting storage in the memory channel is challenging…
Flash Portfolio’s Matter – Seagate Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note
Flash storage is evolving on three vectors. Performance continues to be the key vector. Most data centers buy flash because of its performance attributes; high IOPS and low latency. The second vector is density. Flash has the ability to provide…
What’s Next in All-Flash?
All-Flash Arrays, once thought of as the storage system for certain high performance use cases, are now the mainstream primary storage system. The best proof point of all-flash dominance comes from vendors that sell hard disk, hybrid (flash and hard…
Move Compute Closer to Storage – NGD Systems Briefing Note
Modern applications like big data analytics, facial recognition, IoT and video streaming, as well as next generation applications like artificial intelligence and machine learning, place unique demands on both the compute and storage infrastructures. Most of the modern and next…
Tagged with: Big data, CPU, Flash, FMS2017, Hyperscale, IoT, NAND, NGD Systems, NVMe, PCIe, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Moving Beyond The Flash Status Quo – E8 Storage Briefing Note
There are an increasing number of environments where the flash status quo will not deliver enough performance to meet the demands of the organization. IT planners at these data centers need to deliver unprecedented levels of application response time by…
How To Get More Performance From Today’s Flash? – Smart IOPS Briefing Note
In recent years, most of the advances in flash performance are the result of better engineering more so than faster flash NAND. For example, NVMe makes the interface between the CPU and flash storage more efficient. NVMe over Fabrics makes…
Tagged with: Flash, FMS2017, HPC, Hyperconvergence, NAND, NVMe, NVRAM, PCIe, Smart IOPS, SQL, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Non-Volatile RAM is Real – Everspin Briefing Note
The future is now. For years it seems like non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) has been a technology that is just over the horizon. While there have been some isolated use cases where the technology makes sense and is being used, we…
SlideShare: Where is the All-Flash Data Center?
Find it With Multi-tiered Flash! The all-flash data center was to solve all our problems. We’ve had all-flash arrays for ½ a decade. Where are the all-flash data centers? The problem is that performance and cost have been opposing forces…
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 