The I/O Blender has reached an almost legendary status in virtualization circles. It is a term for what happens to storage I/O when in a virtual infrastructure. The I/O Blender is created when potentially hundreds of virtual machines across dozens…
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How Do I Know My Virtual Environment is Ready For SSD?
Tagged with: CPU, Flash, IOPS, LUN, SolarWinds, SSD, Utilization, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Overcoming Roadblocks to the All-Flash Data Center – Webinar
All-Flash Storage Systems promise denser virtual environments and faster database servers as well as real-time data delivery. But there are roadblocks to all flash storage that need to be overcome. In this webinar learn how to overcome the three key…
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All-Flash Data Center – Sooner Than You Think?
John Scaramuzzo, Senior VP and General Manager at SanDisk, had the second keynote at Storage Visions 2014 in which he put forth the notion that an All-Flash data center may happen sooner than we think. There is no doubt in…
The Impact of NVM on Storage Architectures
Our first session note from Storage Visions 2014 comes from the session, “Please Don’t Go Away: Bringing Non-Volatile Memory to Tomorrow’s Storage Architectures”, sponsored by SNIA. As the title implies, the session discussed Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and its potential impact…
Storage Visions 2014 Kicks Off
Storage Switzerland is in Las Vegas this weekend for the 13th Anniversary of Storage Visions 2014. The two-day conference smartly positioned right before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Topics range from data protection and drive recovery to…
How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?
One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for delivering basic functions like concatenating disks into volumes, RAID data protection…
Tagged with: controller architecture, Data center, Hardware, RAID, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Storage
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Planning For The Next Five Years of Performance
In my last few columns, I have discussed the value of scale-out and scale-up storage systems. I’ve also discussed the potential for All-Flash systems to last twice as long as hard drive based systems. In those columns I’ve tried to…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Scalability, Scale-Out, Storage, Storage Performance, SwiftTest, Workload
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What Is The Role For Scale-Out All-Flash Storage?
Recently the David Wright, CEO of solid fire wrote an excellent blog responding to a column I wrote comparing the benefits of scale-up and scale-out All-Flash storage systems. However, his blog might lead one to believe that I think scale-out…
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Yes You Do Want Your Flash Array To Last For 10 years!
My recent article stating that the current generation of All-Flash Arrays should last for 10 years has created a bit of stir across the storage community. Chris Evans over at Architecting IT did the best job of arguing against a…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, data centers, performance, storage software, storage system
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Adding PCIe SSD Storage To Your MacBook Pro
Anyone that knows me knows that I like to use Macintosh products wherever possible, including in the Storage Switzerland labs. So while we have plenty of Windows servers, I try to do as much work as I can from my…
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