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Making All-Flash 3D TLC SSD Arrays Enterprise Ready

Posted on January 21, 2016 by George Crump

All-Flash Array Vendors are now releasing systems with 3D TLC SSDs. They claim that they have reached price parity, without data efficiency, to mainstream data center hard disk arrays. 3D TLC NAND does bring the price per GB of flash…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash Array, Flash, HDD, MLC, Over-provisioning, SSD, TLC
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The Future of Flash Storage – Part 1 – The Future of Hybrid Storage

Posted on January 15, 2016 by George Crump

Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, performance, SSD, TLC, Virtual, VM
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The Top 3 Deduplication Trends

Posted on July 22, 2015 by George Crump

When combined with compression and thin provisioning, deduplication makes a backup disk a cost effective strategy and now makes considering a primary storage tier consisting only of flash reasonable. In our on demand webinar Permabit CEO, Tom Cook and I…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HDD, MLC, Permabit, SLC, TLC, VM
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Briefing Note: Dell Introduces TLC–3D NAND All-Flash Array

Posted on July 21, 2015 by George Crump

An ongoing concern about flash storage is its endurance. In other words, IT professionals are concerned that these systems will wear out due to heavy write activity prior to being fully amortized. All-flash arrays may be an exception. These systems…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Flash, MLC, SLC, TLC
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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SlideShare – The Future of Enterprise Flash in 2015

Posted on January 7, 2015 by George Crump

TLC Flash, 3D NAND, NVM and Hybrid Memory Arrays are the four big changes coming to memory based storage in 2015 that enterprises need to be prepared for. The technologies promise to dramatically reduce the cost of flash storage while…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, DRAM, Hybrid Memory, NAND, Non-volatile memory, NVM, Tegile, TLC Flash
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What impacts All-Flash Storage Performance

Posted on January 6, 2015 by George Crump

There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…