Server virtualization has a well-documented problem; it creates an I/O blender that can bring storage networks and storage systems to their knees. The I/O blender vs. the desire to design increasingly dense virtual machine (VM) architectures has created a new…
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VMware Server Side Caching – Flash SSD or DRAM
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Infinio, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine, VMware
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Next Generation Scale-Out NAS
The use cases for Network Attached Storage (NAS) have changed dramatically in the 20 years since the first NAS appeared. NAS hardware architectures have also changed. So have the capacities and performance levels that NAS systems are asked to support.…
Tagged with: Compellent Storage Center, Dell, NAS, Network-attached storage, OPS, Scale-Out, Solid-state drive
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center
Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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Overcoming The Challenges With SSD Reliability
Articles posted on the Storage Switzerland web site that focus on SSD Reliability are consistently among the top read articles on our site. Clearly there is concern about using the technology in the enterprise and IT planners want to know…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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What Is A Hyperscale Data Center?
Hyperscale data centers have architectures that are designed to provide a single, massively scalable compute architecture. The architecture is typically made up of small, individual servers, called nodes, that provide compute, storage and networking. These nodes are then clustered together…
Tagged with: Hardware, Hyperscale, PCI Express, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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The Unknown Risk of SSD Mapping Tables
Solid State Disks (SSD) and Flash Appliances use mapping tables to track where data is stored on the flash device. These tables play a similar role to iNode or File Allocation Tables (FAT) and if they get corrupted or lost,…
Tagged with: DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Non-volatile memory, Skyera, Solid-state drive
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What is the Fate of Object Storage?
Object storage and the systems that leverage its unique data storage approach have been the subject of much hype over the past few years. If you took past analyst predictions at face value, by now all unstructured data would be…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Active Archive Alliance, ISCSI, NAS, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?
In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…
Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
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Does ViPR Eliminate Vendor Lock In?
In a recent entry we covered a quick analysis of EMC’s first big announcement at EMC World 2013; ViPR. As we discussed this is EMC’s official entry into the software defined storage market. Potentially the biggest claim is EMC’s statement…
Tagged with: EMC, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Vendor lock-in, VMware
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Analyzing EMC’s Software Defined Storage
Yesterday at EMC World 2013 EMC announced ViPR, their software defined storage product which abstracts the storage controller and the data services from the physical storage. Unlike other software defined storage it does not totally replace the data services available…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, NetApp, Network File System, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization
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