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…
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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
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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
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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…
The State of Hyperconvergence
Hyperconvergence was supposed to be nirvana for the data center. Converge compute, storage and networking into a single box and all data center problems go away. The problem is that didn’t happen. Hyperconvergence is the ultimate white board technology: It…
Webinar: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond – Everything You Need to Know
NVMe is an industry standard protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage like flash drives. It unleashes flash arrays from the chains of SCSI that hold it back. Register for our live webinar and learn what NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics…
The Endpoint is The Data Center
The data center is no longer the “center” of data. As much as 40% of data is now outside the data center on user devices (endpoints) and in cloud-based applications. The workforce is no longer tied to a specific office…
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