Our second day at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019 was another jam-packed day. Western Digital’s activities before and at the event are so extensive that we’ve broken them out into a full detailed briefing note on their IntelliFlash products and…
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Flash Memory Summit 2019 Day 2 – Western Digital
Tagged with: AI, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SDS, SSD, Western Digital
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How to Manage All Your Flash Options
Today’s data center storage infrastructure has to support an unprecedented number of workloads, ranging from virtualized workloads to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Each of these workloads can benefit from all-flash storage systems and it seems like there is a…
Lightboard Video: The State of the File System Market
“Software-defined” is all the buzz, driven by the opportunity to cut costs and avoid vendor lock-in without impacting performance. The problem is that few file system vendors are able to truly deliver on this value proposition. In the following Lightboard…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 1
Storage Switzerland is at the 2019 edition of the Flash Memory Summit (FMS). Each day of the summit, we will be providing a quick summary of our meetings. Day 1 was a busy day for StorageSwiss as we raced from…
Tagged with: AI, DRAM, Flash, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, HPC, NVMe, Pavilion Data, SAS, SATA
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How to Stay IN the Data Center Business
Experts claim that organizations want to “get out of the data center business” as one of the reasons that organizations want to move to the Cloud. While that justification does come up occasionally, in most cases top organizations are quite…
The Value of Fine Tuned Flash Drives – Burlywood Briefing Note
What differentiates one flash drive from another? For the most part, the NAND is very similar. The key differentiator is the controller. The problem is each vendor does its unique optimizations and then releases the combined (controller and NAND) product.…
Why Aren’t You Tiering Backup Data to the Cloud?
Organizations tend to treat all backup data the same. Generally, IT stores backup data on a relatively low performing, high capacity disk backup system. The problem is that this type of device doesn’t fit the restore requests that most IT…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Democratizing In-Memory Computing
The speed and low latency of dynamic access memory (DRAM) are why so many organizations are looking at developing new applications to take advantage of the in-memory computing concept. The problem is that rewriting and migrating to a new application…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Formulus Black, Hypervisor, Migration, SSD, Virtual machine
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How Has Ransomware Changed Data Protection?
The ransomware threat can have a significant monetary impact on the business. Not only are enterprises forced to pay the ransom fee to recover their data, but under various government regulations they also may be charged additional fines per impacted…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media
In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
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