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…
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How to Make Flash Accessible on the Memory Bus
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…
Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS
Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the…
Video Review of Sonnet Tempo And Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Next up in our lab is a review of the Sonnet Tempo PCIe SSD Card and the Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Once again we leveraged the OWC Helios as part of the test exchanging the OWC Accelsior with the Samsung…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, Personal computer, Samsung, Samsung 840, Samsung 840 Pro, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, Sonnet Tempo
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Affordable High Performance PCIe SSD
Server Side Flash Acceleration Application owners that have not deployed server side SSD have generally relied on storage administrators to address I/O issues. Despite their best efforts, storage admins are a resource in high demand and as a result, they…
Maximize SQL Performance By Integrating SSD Software & Hardware
Getting the most performance impact from a flash purchase involves more than just buying fast hardware or efficient caching software. Both of these components must work together to maximize their use of processing power that’s available. The hardware certainly must…
Tagged with: caching software, IOPS, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, performance impact, software process, Solid-state drive, SQL, SQL applications, ZD-XL SQL Accelerator
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