NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
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The Effect of New Memory Technologies on the Data Center
In terms of storage, flash is not the end of the road. New storage and memory technologies will continue to come to market. The next step in storage will have the attributes of RAM but add persistence. Isn’t Flash Perfect?…
How To Network All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays, or almost any array that leverages flash, creates a problem for the rest of the storage infrastructure. It exposes weaknesses in storage software, internal storage system networking and external connectivity. In the past these architecture components hid behind…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bandwidth, FC, Flash, flash memory summit, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Latency, NVMe, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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The Impact of Persistent Memory in the Data Center
Flash is the form of persistent memory that most IT professional are aware of, and it has fundamentally changed the data center. But we’ve only scratched the surface of what persistent memory is capable of, and flash is not the…
Flash Memory Summit Video – The Data Center is All Flash But One Flash Doesn’t Fit All
Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing reliability the all-flash data center is becoming a reality. But as IT professionals understand the benefits of moving more and more workloads to flash they are also realizing that different workloads need different types…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IBM, performance
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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems
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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Flash Memory Summit Video – What is NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics with Mangstor
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Understanding Your Workload Before Flash
While flash can solve a lot of performance problems, storage is not the only reason that applications fail to meet the expectations of their users. Throwing flash at the problem will almost always help to some extent, but there are…
Tagged with: Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Infrastructure, SolarWinds, Virtualization
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Which Flash is Right for Your Workload?
There are two key inflection points for the all-flash data center; when the all-flash array is purchased and during day-to-day operations. The first is before the flash array is purchased. There are a multitude of flash choices available to IT…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Overcoming Flash Confusion
At the Flash Memory Summit IT professionals have no shortage of options when it comes to implementing flash. There are all-flash arrays, hybrid arrays, server side flash, and memory. The challenge is understanding which type of flash should be used…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Mobility, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Migration, Primary Data
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