Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. Even in the so-called shared storage environment,…
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The Right Way To Write Cache
Using flash based solid state disk drives (SSDs) installed in a server as cache is probably the most popular way for IT professionals to address performance problems. Most caching solutions are read-only caches, however, meaning that the other half of…
How to Use SSD to Rescue Performance without Breaking the Bank
IT professionals wear many hats and are constantly responding to the emergency of the moment. When performance problems appear in the virtual environment the default reaction is to throw hardware at the problem. That means “throwing” premium priced flash SSD at it. But this approach can lead to buying too much or too little SSD, which either wastes money or doesn’t effectively solve the performance problem. In this article Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst George Crump, leads you through the process of qualifying your virtual environment’s SSD suitability.
How Tape Can Fix The Unstructured Backup Problem
The fastest growing data set in just about every organization today, and typically the largest, is unstructured data. This is data that’s outside of a database; essentially file data, stored on file servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The…
Designing Enterprise-class Multi-Tenant Storage
Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload directly to the users or ‘interests’ they support. In the cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Providers, DRAM, Enterprise, GUI, LUN, Multi-Tenant, RAID, Zadara
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New Strategies To Control The Data Epidemic in State and Local Government
Data Centers of all sizes are facing a data epidemic, especially State and Local Governments. In fact data growth in government is potentially greater than in the private sector. Not only is there more data, there are more data types and requirements for longer retention. In this article George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland discusses how combating the data epidemic requires new innovation from an old source – tape. Rather than competing against disk, tape, combined with the right solution, can compliment and extend the useful life of disk storage assets.
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Crossroads, Data center, Data Growth, LTFS, NAS, Storage, Tape
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How Do I Know My Virtual Environment is Ready For SSD?
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…
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…
