Server side SSD caching solutions are popular implementation choices for performance upgrades because they allow users to put the performance right where it’s needed, in the application server itself. For many of these use cases, a direct attached disk array…
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Is it Time for Hybrid SSD RAID Controllers?
Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, LSI, Multi-level cell, Nytro MegaRAID, PCI Express, RAID, RAID controller, SandForce, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Demo Day At The Flash Memory Summit
We wrapped up the Flash Memory Summit today with another round of briefings and we participated in a panel studying the state of the SSD market. Today was a little different than other days as we went down to the…
Tagged with: Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, OCZ, Solid-state drive, SQL, SSD, VMware, WhipTail
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Nimble Solves The Scale-Up or Scale-Out Dilemma
Nimble has recognized the challenge of growing storage systems in a performance-critical environment. With traditional, scale-up storage architectures, as more disk capacity is added storage controllers can become the bottleneck, causing performance to suffer. In scale-out storage systems, an appliance…
Solving Hadoop Storage Challenges by Converging Storage and Compute
Cleversafe’s object-based, scale-out storage architecture leverages a unique information dispersal algorithm to distribute data objects across multiple storage nodes (called Slicestor ** nodes). These nodes can be located in a single data center or spread around the world. Using a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Big data, Cleversafe, Data center, Hadoop, Hardware, HDFS, MapReduce, Object Storage
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Faster VMAX and Isilon Performance
Another key theme coming out of EMC World Day 1 was a focus on providing a performance boost to EMC’s core storage platforms, beyond just adding solid state disk. The EMC Symmetrix family, the EMC VMAX, and their scale out NAS offering,…
High Performance Storage For The SMB
As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,…
Tagged with: Drobo, ISCSI, OCZ, SMB, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine
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Two horses in the Cloud race
The final theme to come out of EMC World Day 1 was EMC’s attention to the cloud. Cloud providers typically need one of two things from their storage. Cloud Compute Providers are often more concerned about scalable performance and Cloud Storage Providers…
What is a Flash System OS?
Texas Memory Details Its Secret Sauce Today’s flash storage systems have a lot of work to do. There is the lowest level flash management that includes error correction and wear leveling. Then there is the more advanced functions that manage…
Taming the Unstructured Data Beast
Likewise Software, headquartered in Bellevue Washington, has expertise in networking protocols, platform interoperability as well as identity and access management. They entered into the storage marketplace to develop a SMB/CIFS stack for several OEM vendors that were looking to support…
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