With the second major release of AutoCache, Proximal Data has taken steps to go cross-hypervisor and cross-storage platform. With 2.0 they can accelerate in NFS, iSCSI and Fibre channel environments as well as provide a performance boost to Hyper-V environments.…
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Making Flash RAM Like
Server-side Flash and SSD has delivered significant storage I/O performance benefits to physical and virtualized host environments. While SSD provides many benefits, it is not without its drawbacks. By adding another device into a PCIe slot, for example, SSD resources…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash, Flash memory, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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Removing Flash’s Final Latency Roadblock
One of the key attributes of flash storage is its ability to remove storage I/O latency. The memory based storage technology can respond instantly to requests for data. However, flash’s zero latent nature exposes latency in other parts of the…
Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Hardware, PCI Express, SanDisk, SMART Storage Systems, Solid-state drive
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Permabit Albireo VDO Test Drive
Permabit was making a strong presence at the Flash Memory Summit and based on their meeting schedule Flash vendors are listening. From what we have learned in our testing of the Albireo VDO solution there should be a long line…
Tagged with: Albireo, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, Permabit, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Switzerland
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How to Make Flash Accessible on the Memory Bus
One of the more interesting technologies at the Flash Memory Summit this year was presented by SMART Storage and Diablo Technologies. They’ve taken server-side flash implementation to a new level with SMART Storage’s ULLtraDIMM, a flash storage device that puts…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash memory, PCI Express, Random-access memory, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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What Does EMC Want With ScaleIO?
Storage Switzerland just received confirmation from one of our more trusted sources that EMC is actively in discussions to acquire ScaleIO. This makes some sense; EMC has a tendency to buy early stage Israeli based companies (XtremeIO and Kashya) and…
Tagged with: EMC, PCI Express, Quality of service, ScaleIO, Software Defined Storage, VMware
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What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?
In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…
Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
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Does ViPR Eliminate Vendor Lock In?
In a recent entry we covered a quick analysis of EMC’s first big announcement at EMC World 2013; ViPR. As we discussed this is EMC’s official entry into the software defined storage market. Potentially the biggest claim is EMC’s statement…
Tagged with: EMC, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Vendor lock-in, VMware
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Analyzing EMC’s Software Defined Storage
Yesterday at EMC World 2013 EMC announced ViPR, their software defined storage product which abstracts the storage controller and the data services from the physical storage. Unlike other software defined storage it does not totally replace the data services available…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, NetApp, Network File System, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization
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Tape is More Than The Backup of Last Resort
As we discussed in a recent webinar, “Why Tape is Making a Comeback“, data centers of all sizes are seeing the wisdom of renewing the role of tape and tape libraries in their backup and archiving environments. With the release…
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