Getting the absolute maximum performance from Flash-based storage and providing shared access across multiple servers typically requires a solid state storage appliance. These systems are designed specifically to eliminate bottlenecks and latency to deliver extreme performance. However, most of these…
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Highly Available Solid State Storage Performance
Tagged with: Flash, HA, RAID, Ramsan, Solid State, Texas Memory, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
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The Downsides to Array Based Data Replication
Array based replication is the ability to have data automatically copied to a remote site creating the foundation of a solid disaster recovery strategy and as a result many storage arrays have a replication option. In fact many vendors provide…
What is a Storage Controller?
Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…
Tagged with: Central processing unit, Controller, Data center, dual controller, Fibre Channel, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD, storage array, Storage Controller, Storage Hypervisor, storage system, storage systems
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OCZ SSD Keeps Shining
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…
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
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
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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