Medium- to large-sized data centers count on applications like Microsoft’s SQL Server to support applications that users need to become more productive so that the business can be more competitive. As these applications move into production the businesses become dependent…
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Optimizing MS-SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups With Server SSD
Tagged with: Business, Database, Direct Attached Storage, flash storage, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server, Replication, SQL, SQL Server, SSD, Top10-2013
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Assessing the All-Flash Array Market
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and offer a set of storage features like snapshots and replication similar to traditional hard drive based storage systems. The recent leaks of what EMC plans to do with the…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, GreenBytes, Hybrid array, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Total Cost of Ownership, VM-Aware Storage, ZFS
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Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and give a complete set of robust features like snapshots and replication, similar to traditional hard-drive based storage systems. While their performance enhancing potential is very appealing, All-Flash arrays have…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Computer data storage, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, Pure, Solid-state drive, VMware
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What Is Hybrid Storage?
Hybrid Storage is a term used to describe storage systems that are designed with a blend of flash-based solid state disk and hard disk drives to provide high performance at an affordable price. They try to address the dollar-per-IOPS vs…
Tagged with: Data deduplication, DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, Hybrid array, IOPS, Solid-state drive
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VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage
Server and desktop virtualization has given IT the flexibility to respond to the needs of the business rapidly while at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiency. These abilities though have created a greater challenge for the supporting storage…
VM Recovery In Place vs. Changed Block Recovery
One of the benefits of virtualization has been the ability to recover applications and servers more rapidly. Recently some backup software vendors have added the ability to recover a virtual machine directly from the backup image. A technique commonly called…
Tagged with: Avamar, Changed Block Recovery, EMC, Recovery in Place, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture
Shared storage using either a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) device enables many key features of the virtual server environment, such as virtual machine (VM) migration, distributed resource management and site recovery management. As a result…
Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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How to Solve the SSD Endurance Problem
As the storage medium for main memory DRAM is where the processing work gets done in application servers. It’s generally the fastest mass produced data storage area available and can support the nearly unlimited cycle of writes and overwrites that…
Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, NVDIMM, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking
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Preparing For Virtualization 3.0
Virtualization 3.0 is the eventual end-game for the data center. In this environment the host will become the ‘atomic’ element of the data center, with applications, storage and networking all centered on this single element, for the most part. Clearly,…
The Requirements for Cloud Storage Infrastructure
Cloud storage is becoming a ubiquitous term, subject to a wide variety of definitions. In the context of this article cloud storage will refer to a storage service that’s provided by an organization to storage users. That organization can be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Object, Object Storage, Protection
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