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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An All-Flash Array is a performance sledgehammer. It shatters the performance problems that most data centers face and will likely continue to do so for years. Unlike traditional hard disk systems, most data centers that purchase an All-Flash Array won’t…
2014 will be a year unlike any other for IT Planners. The pressure to meet the performance demands of an increasingly dense virtual infrastructure and even more transaction-heavy databases is higher than ever. Add to that the out-of-control growth of…
Leveraging Software Defined Networking For Better Scale-out Storage
Intelligently placing data within a storage system is not necessarily a new concept, but leveraging software defined networking to make decisions about data while it’s still in transit is. When software defined networking and software defined storage are combined they can overcome some of the challenges that high performance scale-out storage systems encounter. As a result these new, software defined, scale-out systems provide highly flexible, highly reliable and highly cost effective storage systems that can support a wide variety of workloads.
Learn:
– The challenges when Scale-out architectures
– How flash exposes even more challenges
– How Software Defined Networking can lead to better scale-out storage
The removal of latency is a critical part to delivering more fully on the flash performance promise. No matter how fast the flash technology becomes, the latency of its connection to the CPU is a key stumbling block in achieving…
