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Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array

Posted on August 15, 2014 by George Crump

The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…

Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
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SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…

Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
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HGST upgrades Flash Acceleration hardware and software products

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Eric Slack

HGST, a division of longtime disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced updates for two products in the application acceleration market. FlashMAX III is the latest generation of half-height, half-length PCIe accelerator cards designed for high performance enterprise and hyper-scale environments.…

Tagged with: Deduplication, Disk Drive, Flash, Flash Acceleration, HGST, PCIe, performance, SSD, VeloBit, Western Digital
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XtremIO update at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 8, 2014 by George Crump

One of the headlines at this years Flash Memory Summit was the much broader participation of the traditional storage vendors. Dell, IBM, Hitachi and HP were all there. Not to be left out, EMC also had a presence and we…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Latency, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Thin provisioning, XtremIO
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BitMicro’s 6TB PCIe provides high-capacity Server-side Flash option

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Eric Slack

BitMicro is announcing a new line of PCIe flash cards to address a need in the market for higher capacity server-side SSDs. Historically focused on military and industrial applications, the MaxIO SSD line should give BitMicro a solution that also…

Tagged with: BitMicro, Flash, High Capacity, IOPS, PCIe, Server-side, Solid State, SSD
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New Non-Volatile Memory Technology lowers cost of production

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Eric Slack

Contour Semiconductor is developing a new non-volatile memory that leverages Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology and some other innovations to simplify the design process and provide better performance and endurance. Diode Transistor Memory Contour’s Diode Transistor Memory (DTM) technology uses…

Tagged with: Contour Semiconductor, Efficiency, Endurance, Flash memory, Memory, performance, Solid State
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Dell – Delivering Flash the way customers want

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

Flash consumption by the enterprise data center is typically done as a response to a specific performance problem. The flash purchase that often results are typically either an all-new flash array or it is added to an existing array. The…

Tagged with: Compellent, Data migration, Dell, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, SLC
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Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

Hybrid arrays vendors were out to get some respect at the Flash Memory Summit. Tegile was one of them, but their approach to hybrid systems has a distinctive all-flash feel. Their recently announced T3800 is an all-flash array that can…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid, IOPS, Replication, Reverse Hybrid Array, Tegile
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Application Centric Caching

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

At Flash Memory Summit, we sat down with the team from CacheBox, an emerging provider of server-side caching software. Their software CacheAdvance is a software-only, hardware agnostic, server-side caching solution. What makes the CacheBox solution unique is that it does…

Tagged with: Application Cache, Block Level Acceleration, Cache, CacheBox, Flash, I/O, MS-SQL, Server-side
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Nimble’s Adaptive Flash extends the range of Hybrid Arrays

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

Choosing a storage system has always involved tradeoffs, often between performance and capacity. This has been the case with flash-based systems where buyers have typically decided on hybrid arrays when capacity was more important and all-flash arrays when performance was…