Everspin Briefing Note The concept of persistent memory, also known as non-volatile DRAM, has been with us for a while. However, the idea of RAM that never loses data even during an unexpected power loss is IT nirvana. Today’s semiconductor…
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Persistent Memory is Reality
Tagged with: DRAM, Everspin, Flash, IoT, Memory, MRAM, Non-volatile DRAM, Persistent Memory
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Open Software Defined Storage takes an Object Storage Step
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Briefing Note Software Defined Storage (SDS) continues to attract the attention of IT professionals, but broad adoption is not meeting the expectations IT professionals. Part of the challenge is that while SDS, in theory, breaks…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consistency, Data Protection, NFS, Object Storage, performance, Red Hat, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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ChalkTalk Video: Migrating From VMware to The Google Compute Platform
At the top of most IT project whiteboards is “cloud”. Whether cloud compute or cloud storage, organizations are trying to figuring out how to move their applications or data to these no CapEx environments. One of the most popular is…
Software Defined Deduplication is Critical to the Cloud
The goal of any cloud initiative is to create a cost-effective, flexible environment. The architectures will typically store large data sets for long periods of times, so one of the challenges to being cost-effective is the physical cost of storage.…
SlideShare: Overcoming the Storage Challenges Cassandra and Couchbase Create
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. But this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. Storage in the broad sense. In-memory databases perform well when there is enough memory…
SlideShare: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems
E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only…
Tagged with: E8, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, SSD
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Using Software To Achieve Full Flash Potential
It is no longer “good enough” to have flash in the server. Where it is in the server is also of vital importance. Moving flash from the SAS interface to the PCI interface to the memory bus has significantly lowered…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Software Defined Storage and Flash
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is nothing new, vendors have been presenting it under different names for years. But SDS really had not taken off, it was hindered by a lack of CPU power and highly latent hard disk performance. The…
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