“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…
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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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Dell Brings Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery To The SMB Market
Dell today announced its first entrance into the disk backup target appliance market in the form of the new Dell DR4000. Targeted directly at the medium-size business, the DR4000 comes with built-in deduplication, compression and replication as part of a…
Tagged with: Backup, Commvault, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Dell, Ocarina Networks, PBBA, Symantec, The Dell, WAN
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Falling Backward – Disaster Recovery Plans have to Include Fail Back
When creating or testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan most IT professionals tend to focus on getting the data out of the building and safely stored in a remote location. Much of the success or failure of a DR plan…
Integrating PCIe SSD Into The Storage System
The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage…
