Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…
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Hardware Matters More Than Ever
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, Memory, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined, Violin Memory
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Flash As Memory Instead of Storage
Diablo Technologies Memory1 Briefing Note Flash is typically thought of as a fast alternative to storage, the ultimate hard drive upgrade. But it is memory, so there is no reason IT can’t use it as an alternative to DRAM. The…
24 Million IOPS on a Single Device
Crossbar Briefing Note Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is the nirvana of the memory and storage market. It provides most of the speed and durability of RAM but the persistence of flash. The combination should drive both in-memory computing initiatives and high…
Tagged with: Crossbar, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IOPS, IoT, Latency, Memory, NVM
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Faster Flash with NVMe Over Fabrics
Broadcom Briefing Note No matter how fast the storage infrastructure is, IT professionals can count on users and application owners to want more. Flash storage goes a long way toward appeasing the appetite for performance. But it is the constant…
Tagged with: AFA, Broadcom, Fibre Channel, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, NVMe, performance, SCSI, SSD
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EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management Solution
Data centers are drowning in data. The unprecedented growth comes from a variety of new sources like data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as from traditional sources like user data. But the biggest area of data…
Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Protection, EMC, IoT, SLA, SLO
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Overcome Couchbase and Cassandra DRAM Aggravation
Couchbase and Cassandra count on the active data set to be in RAM. To overcome the RAM limits of a single server and to make more compute available, the environments run in a cluster that aggregates the RAM and CPU…
The Need for Speed – High Performance Object Storage
Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher…
Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Nexenta, Object Storage, Replication, SSD
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Workload Mobility for Private Cloud to Public Cloud
CloudEndure Briefing Note Mobility is a key capability that data centers are looking for as they modernize IT operations. It is the ability to move any application or group of applications from anywhere to anywhere. But workload mobility is more…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, CloudEndure, dr, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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Modernized IT Needs an Intelligent Virtual Data Repository
The cloud is not a single location. It is a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud locations and an organization may have several of each. The cloud aspect means that data and workloads should move seamlessly between these locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Metadata, Snapshot, Virtualize, VM
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Software Defined Data Center for Enterprises
HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, HTBase, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, SDS, Virtualization
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