Server-side caching solutions seem to be the answer for every storage performance woe by enabling users to conduct a ‘surgical strike’ on storage I/O bottlenecks. But are they able to live up to all the hype? And what about the…
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Proximal Data Cache Goes Cross-Everything
With the second major release of AutoCache, Proximal Data has taken steps to go cross-hypervisor and cross-storage platform. With 2.0 they can accelerate in NFS, iSCSI and Fibre channel environments as well as provide a performance boost to Hyper-V environments.…
Making Flash RAM Like
Server-side Flash and SSD has delivered significant storage I/O performance benefits to physical and virtualized host environments. While SSD provides many benefits, it is not without its drawbacks. By adding another device into a PCIe slot, for example, SSD resources…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash, Flash memory, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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Removing Flash’s Final Latency Roadblock
One of the key attributes of flash storage is its ability to remove storage I/O latency. The memory based storage technology can respond instantly to requests for data. However, flash’s zero latent nature exposes latency in other parts of the…
Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Hardware, PCI Express, SanDisk, SMART Storage Systems, Solid-state drive
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Is it Time to Upgrade Your Storage Evaluation Process?
In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…
Webinar – Comparing VMware Caching Techniques – Guest vs. Hypervisor
Caching has become the primary way way to integrate SSD into VMware Environments. Solutions have appeared that implement at the hypervisor layer and inside the VM at the guest OS layer but which caching technique is best? In this webinar,…
2 Million IOPS – It Takes A Flash Village
Storage Switzerland was recently commissioned by Brocade, Dell, Emulex and Violin Memory to audit a lab test in which we were able to design an environment that delivered over 2 million IOPS. As we went through the testing process I…
Tagged with: Brocade, Dell, Dell PowerEdge, Emulex, Fibre Channel, Flash memory, IOP, Violin Memory
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Webinar – The Business of Backup – The Impact of Backup Licensing on IT Budgets
Thanks to virtualization and improved abilities in backup software, the data protection process has become easier to implement and operate but unlike other technologies, it has not become less expensive. Whether the licensing strategy is module based or capacity based,…
Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment
Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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Permabit Albireo VDO Test Drive
Permabit was making a strong presence at the Flash Memory Summit and based on their meeting schedule Flash vendors are listening. From what we have learned in our testing of the Albireo VDO solution there should be a long line…
Tagged with: Albireo, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, Permabit, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Switzerland
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