This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working…
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AKiTio Taurus Super Mini S
A new addition to the Storage Switzerland Lab is the AKiTio Super Mini S. This is a small, somewhat portable dual drive storage device that can either stripe or mirror two 2.5″ hard drives. While some assembly is required I…
Tagged with: Akitio, Backup, Booting, Hard disk drive, IEEE 1394, RAID, Solid-state drive, Standard RAID levels, Test Drive
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The Big Data Archive
“Big Data” is often thought of as a specialized use case involving machine generated data, typically associated with web search logs, satellite imagery or other sensor data, on which analytics are performed to enable some sort of decision support application.…
How to Track the Cost of Storage Part 2 – lowering TCO
In the first article we opened with a short discussion on why TCO calculations are worth the time they consume. Essentially, any realistic effort to reduce overall costs must start with an accurate baseline of the existing system cost. We…
Your Hypervisor Is Hardware Independent
So Should Your Replication Solution Be Server virtualization changed the way the server infrastructure is deployed, managed and maintained. It also changed the way servers were acquired. No longer was the user locked into a particular set of server hardware…
The Storage Hypervisor
Flexibility is a key objective for many data centers. They want to respond to the needs of the business without having to slow the business down. Flexibility like this is a primary deliverable of server virtualization and one of the…
Tagged with: Hypervisor, Primary Storage, Shortcoming, Thin provisioning, Virsto, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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High Performance Storage For The Mid-Range
Mid-range data centers have many of the same performance challenges that large enterprises do. As these organizations grow they are virtualizing servers, becoming more reliant on high transaction databases and can have Exchange or Sharepoint performance issues. The problem is…
Tagged with: CASL, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Nimble, Storage, Technology
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The ExecEvent Goes Cloud and Virtual
Storage Switzerland will be attending the ExecEvent’s Cloud and Virtualization focused event in Santa Clara this week. Personally this is one of my favorite events. My hat is off to its organizer Greg Duplessie and his team. The ExecEvent is…
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SSD DIMM – An Alternative to PCIe SSD
PCIe Solid State Disks (SSDs) have become extremely popular in a very short amount of time. They provide uncomplicated access to high performance storage, allowing latency problems to be solved where the application is run – on the server. And,…
Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, PCIe, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking, VMware
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What To Look For in Server Based SSD
As Storage Switzerland discussed in the article “What is Server Based Solid State Caching” there is much to be gained by moving solid state disk (SSD) closer to the application and its processor. The substantial reduction of network I/O and…
Tagged with: Cache, DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, EMC, Flash memory, Marvell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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