Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…
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Storage Visions 2014 Kicks Off
Storage Switzerland is in Las Vegas this weekend for the 13th Anniversary of Storage Visions 2014. The two-day conference smartly positioned right before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Topics range from data protection and drive recovery to…
How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?
One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for delivering basic functions like concatenating disks into volumes, RAID data protection…
Tagged with: controller architecture, Data center, Hardware, RAID, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Storage
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Planning For The Next Five Years of Performance
In my last few columns, I have discussed the value of scale-out and scale-up storage systems. I’ve also discussed the potential for All-Flash systems to last twice as long as hard drive based systems. In those columns I’ve tried to…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Scalability, Scale-Out, Storage, Storage Performance, SwiftTest, Workload
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What Is The Role For Scale-Out All-Flash Storage?
Recently the David Wright, CEO of solid fire wrote an excellent blog responding to a column I wrote comparing the benefits of scale-up and scale-out All-Flash storage systems. However, his blog might lead one to believe that I think scale-out…
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Yes You Do Want Your Flash Array To Last For 10 years!
My recent article stating that the current generation of All-Flash Arrays should last for 10 years has created a bit of stir across the storage community. Chris Evans over at Architecting IT did the best job of arguing against a…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, data centers, performance, storage software, storage system
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Adding PCIe SSD Storage To Your MacBook Pro
Anyone that knows me knows that I like to use Macintosh products wherever possible, including in the Storage Switzerland labs. So while we have plenty of Windows servers, I try to do as much work as I can from my…
Analyzing Flash Adoption
In a recent webinar focused on reducing latency of the flash interconnect, we asked a polling question “Where do you primarily use flash today?”. As you can see from the results users are still trying to figure out how and…
Tagged with: Flash, Intel, IOPS, Latency, PCI Express, Proximal Data, SanDisk, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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Nimble’s Strong IPO Should Come As No Surprise
At the time I write this, Nimble Storage has completed its initial public offering (NMBL) and is trading at ~$31 a share, up about $10 from its opening price. While there were some nay-sayers in the analyst community, Storage Switzerland…
Primary Storage Deduplication is Here
In our recent webinar, “The Truth About All-Flash Deduplication”, which is now available for on-demand viewing, we asked attendees where are they applying deduplication technology to improve storage efficiency. It was little surprise that backup storage, at 36% of the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Information technology, Permabit, Storage
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