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What’s The Best Flash Acceleration Strategy For SQL Server?

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Eric Slack

Simply adding flash to provide more storage IOPS doesn’t guarantee better application performance, steps must be taken to ensure that the right data is in flash when it’s needed. Accelerating applications like SQL Server that can have data sets TBs…

Tagged with: Cache, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Random-access memory, SQL, SQL Server
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What’s The Best Flash Acceleration Strategy For SQL Server?

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Eric Slack

Tagged with: Cache, Database, Microsoft, OCZ, PCI Express, SQL
Posted in Product Analysis

Permabit’s Albireo – From Dedupe to Software-Defined Storage

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Permabit recently announced the latest additions to their Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) deduplication and thin provisioning software for Linux-based storage systems. Permabit added turnkey software applications for compression and replication. With these additions, Permabit enables storage OEMs to level…

Tagged with: Albireo, Big data, Data deduplication, Linux, Permabit, VDO
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Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter

Posted on May 6, 2013 by George Crump

Increasing virtual machine (VM) density is critical for organizations looking to continue to reap the ROI benefits of virtualization; the more VMs per server the more cost effective the virtualization project becomes. There is one primary roadblock to increased VM…

Tagged with: Cache, OpenVMS, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX
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PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…

Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
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Easy, Effective and Efficient Server SSD Caching

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Eric Slack

SSDs (solid state devices) are becoming more mainstream and now ‘placement’ technologies like caching are getting increased attention as users strive to get the most out of their solid state investments. Caching primary disk storage with NAND flash can improve…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, HyperCache, Linux, Solid-state drive, SSD, VeloBit, VMware, Windows
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OCZ’s VXL Solves the “DAS Problem” of PCIe Flash

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Eric Slack

Storage problems are ‘taking the fun’ out of virtualization. Legacy storage systems can’t keep up with the performance demands of highly random workloads that server virtualization environments generate. Because of this, companies are seeing these deployments make for much lower VM…

Tagged with: flash storage, ISCSI, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware
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Advancing the State of the Art in PCIe SSD

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Eric Slack

Solid State Drives (SSDs) that leverage the PCIe bus provide the ultimate storage I/O performance boost by providing the CPU with direct access to zero-latency storage. But all PCIe SSDs are not created equal. There is room for advancing the…

Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, MLC, Multi-level cell, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Increasing VM Density With Server Side Caching

Posted on July 23, 2012 by George Crump

Increasing the number of virtual machines (VMs) per host is a critical next step in the design of virtualized server infrastructures so that the growth of virtual hosts does not begin to eat at the original ROI of the virtualization…