The watchword in IT and in storage, according to HDS, is “mobility”, as mobile users and mobile devices continue to impact every aspect of data storage, now and in the near future. At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, we spoke with…
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HDS addresses the Mobility Challenge – for Users and IT
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Mobility, Next Generation Storage Summit, Virtual machine, VM
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The three Ps to a successful VDI deployment – Persistence, Price, Performance
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises to reduce IT operational costs, improve endpoint data protection and increase endpoint usability. But for a VDI deployment to be successful, it must provide the user an experience that is better than the physical desktop…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Cache, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, performance, Persistence, Price, Server Side Flash, SSD, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Nimble fills out their Adaptive Flash Line
Nimble announced two new models to their “Adaptive Flash” line of hybrid disk and flash storage systems. These arrays, the CS300 and CS500, are updated versions of Nimble’s CS200 and CS400 products, respectively, providing a 50% performance improvement over the…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, Cache, Capacity, Flash, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Nimble, SSD
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A better Server-side Flash Solution for increased VM Density
Many of the IT professionals who came to VMworld this week are facing the same situations, they’re looking at flash to increase VM density and improve overall performance. One way is by putting that flash into the host server, particularly…
Application Centric Caching
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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Flash-based ZD-XL SQL Accelerator adds Virtualization, BPE and Blade Server Support
Speeding up mission critical applications running on databases like MS SQL Server can pay immediate dividends in a number of ways, such as increasing transaction-based revenue or improving analytics. For many companies, the way to do this has been with…
ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud
The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
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Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl
Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i
LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions, this product integrates PCIe flash, caching software and LSI’s MegaRAID technology into…
Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Tagged with: Cache, Cache Acceleration, Density, DRAM, Hypervisor, Intel, NAS, performance, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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