One of the first, if not the first server that a growing business will get is a network attached storage server. As we discussed in our recent article “SMB NAS Requirements”, these systems should be able to provide several important…
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High Performance Storage For The SMB
As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,…
Tagged with: Drobo, ISCSI, OCZ, SMB, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine
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Overcoming The All Flash Cost Challenge
If all storage were the same price, all storage would be solid state storage. We would end data tiering, there would be no performance tuning and the discussion of storage performance problems would be a thing of the past. Of course all…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Multi-level cell, Pure, SLC, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, storage efficiency, VMware
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Two horses in the Cloud race
The final theme to come out of EMC World Day 1 was EMC’s attention to the cloud. Cloud providers typically need one of two things from their storage. Cloud Compute Providers are often more concerned about scalable performance and Cloud Storage Providers…
How Big Backup Impacts Deduplication
“Big Backup” is an enterprise challenge where millions (or billions) of files have to be processed each night so they can be safely and cost effectively stored on backup devices. These kinds of backup jobs not only have large numbers…
Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention
Thanks to the requirements of Big Data, compliance and regulatory controls organizations are now faced with the daunting challenge of storing a much larger amount of the data they create for a significantly longer period of time. Also, the need…
The Challenges with SSD Caching and Tiering
It is universally accepted that for most applications, adding flash to the storage infrastructure will greatly improve storage performance and offer a productivity return on the investment. The controversy in the industry is deciding where the flash storage should be…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Flash memory, flash storage, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Pure, Solid-state drive, storage system
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What is a Flash System OS?
Texas Memory Details Its Secret Sauce Today’s flash storage systems have a lot of work to do. There is the lowest level flash management that includes error correction and wear leveling. Then there is the more advanced functions that manage…
Is PCIe SSD Always Faster?
As Solid State Disk (SSD) has evolved many ways have been developed for it to be accessed by the applications that need performance acceleration. The connection between the application and the SSD is often made by the most available, least…
Achieving Maximum SSD Efficiency
There are two well-known facts about solid state disk (SSD). First, SSD is fast and second, SSD is expensive—compared with traditional disk drives. There are also two well-known facts about the data center. First, almost every data center needs more…
Tagged with: Data center, Deduplication, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD
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