Caching is an ideal way to maximize an investment in solid state disk (SSD), especially in virtual environments where massively random I/O patterns are the norm. Caching provides an automated way to make sure that the most active data is…
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Server Side Caching vs. Raid Controller Caching
Tagged with: Cache, Disk array controller, Intel, PCI Express, RAID, Servers, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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How NVDIMM Can Protect Flash SSD Appliances
As Storage Switzerland discussed in two articles recently flash based appliances are particularly vulnerable to power failures. This vulnerability is related to the way these appliances use DRAM to buffer writes and to store meta data tables. DRAM is volatile,…
What Does EMC Want With ScaleIO?
Storage Switzerland just received confirmation from one of our more trusted sources that EMC is actively in discussions to acquire ScaleIO. This makes some sense; EMC has a tendency to buy early stage Israeli based companies (XtremeIO and Kashya) and…
Tagged with: EMC, PCI Express, Quality of service, ScaleIO, Software Defined Storage, VMware
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VMware Server Side Caching – Flash SSD or DRAM
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…
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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