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Realizing the Full Potential of NVMe – E8 Storage Briefing Note

Posted on February 7, 2018 by George Crump

When flash storage first came to market it exposed the weakness in storage designs, hidden by the latency of hard disk media. Now, NVMe promises to expose weaknesses in the designs of the first generation of all-flash arrays. One of…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, E8, FC, Flash, HPC, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SSD
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Moving Beyond The Flash Status Quo – E8 Storage Briefing Note

Posted on August 8, 2017 by George Crump

There are an increasing number of environments where the flash status quo will not deliver enough performance to meet the demands of the organization. IT planners at these data centers need to deliver unprecedented levels of application response time by…

Tagged with: DRAM, E8, Flash, FMS2017, Latency, NVMe, RAID, Replication, Scale, SQL, SSD, VM
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Beating Down The Local SSD Myth – E8 Storage Briefing Note

Posted on July 17, 2017 by George Crump

The All-Flash Array market is at a crossroads. The SSD drives they use are getting faster but the systems that hold those drives are not. Today a single NVMe SSD is capable of greater than 700k IOPS, but most AFA…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Container, E8, Fabril, Latency, NoSQL, NVMe, Replication, SQL, SSD, VM
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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems

Posted on August 11, 2016 by George Crump

E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only…

Tagged with: E8, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, SSD
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