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What Is Dispersed Storage?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by George Crump

Keeping unstructured data available, as data sets continue to grow, is a key challenge for today’s data center. The access requirements of unstructured data often preclude relying 100% on capacity centric tape so higher capacity disk solutions, for many organizations,…

Tagged with: Cleversafe, Disk array, Dispersed storage, Object Storage, RAID, Storage
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Improving SSD Performance Through Better Flash Management

Posted on April 15, 2013 by George Crump

Solid State Drive (SSD) storage has become a viable performance option thanks to the advent of NAND flash devices which are making memory-based storage affordable. The performance of an SSD is not solely dictated by the NAND but by the…

Tagged with: DRAM, Flash memory, Granularity, Micron, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Power Failure and Flash Storage

Posted on April 10, 2013 by George Crump

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the issue of power failures in flash based solid state storage systems. In various tests run by industry associations flash based solid state disk (SSD) devices, when subjected to a sudden power-loss,…

Making Storage the VDI Solution, Not the Problem

Posted on April 9, 2013 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has found a niche in call-center types of environments where very large numbers of workers run essentially the same desktops. But in the broader market VDI hasn’t seen the same success, a fact typically blamed on…

Tagged with: Desktop virtualization, Solid-state drive, Top10-2013, VDI, VeloBit, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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What Is GEN 5 Fibre?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by George Crump

Despite the best marketing efforts of various forms of IP based storage, Fibre Channel continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. The growth in large, real-time databases and the increasing VM density per physical host, as well as the proliferation…

Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, ISCSI, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network
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Video Review of Sonnet Tempo And Samsung 840 Pro SSD

Posted on March 22, 2013 by George Crump

Next up in our lab is a review of the Sonnet Tempo PCIe SSD Card and the Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Once again we leveraged the OWC Helios as part of the test exchanging the OWC Accelsior with the Samsung…

Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, Personal computer, Samsung, Samsung 840, Samsung 840 Pro, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, Sonnet Tempo
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How Legacy Storage Breaks The Cloud

Posted on March 14, 2013 by George Crump

As business data continues its relentless migration to the cloud, providers of cloud hosted environments and applications are creating the perfect storm for their legacy storage systems, a storm that will break the ‘cloud promise’. These environments require high scalability,…

Tagged with: Cloud computing, Hardware, IOPS, OnApp, Scalability, Service-level agreement, Storage area network, Virtual machine
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Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Crump

Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
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Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction

Posted on February 27, 2013 by George Crump

While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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