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Software-Defined Flash
Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note: Radian Eliminates Flash Translation Layer for Improved Performance, Endurance, and Cost The first generation of flash storage devices addressed backward compatibility by treating the devices as if they were hard drives through the use of…
Tagged with: Cloning, Flash, flash memory summit, FTL, Latency, Radian Memory, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Posted in Briefing Note
Flash as RAM not Storage
Briefing Note: Diablo Delivers Flash As Memory Since its introduction to the enterprise, flash has been viewed as an expensive but fast alternative to the hard disk drive, but not as inexpensive as RAM. Flash implementation options like PCIe SSDs…
Tagged with: Cloud, Diablo, DIMM, DRAM, Flash, flash memory summit, Hyper-scale, Memory
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Vidant Health Leverages Flash to think differently about Healthcare Data Management
Most first time all-flash array buyers make the leap to solid state performance because they have hit a performance wall. While Vidant Health was certainly ready for a performance upgrade, late last year their immediate concern was capacity and security.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, IOPS, Latency, Snapshot, SSD, XtremIO
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What are the Requirements to Consolidate Storage?
In the perfect world, a data center would have a single storage system. One that would provide high performance and high capacity in a single platform that doesn’t take up much data center floor space. Ideally, this system would be…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization
Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar…
Service Provider Counts on XtremIO to Expand Business
Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from…
Briefing Note: Dell Introduces TLC–3D NAND All-Flash Array
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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Managing Storage Sprawl, Instead of Consolidating it
At Storage Switzerland we write a lot about storage consolidation. While consolidation can simplify management the initial requirement of refreshing and potentially replacing legacy storage is a show stopper for many data centers. SDS provides a viable alternative if it can be used on existing storage assets so that the management and operation of those devices can be consolidated. In this article we discuss how SDS can provide simplification while being more cost-effective.
Tagged with: Consolidation, FalconStor, Flash, QOS, RPO, RTO, SDS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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How to decide if Software Defined Storage is Right for you
Software Defined Storage (SDS) can bring value to almost every data center that has multiple storage systems to manage and that are rapidly expanding. Once those value points are understood and verified, deciding which of the available SDS implementation types is right for your data center is the next step. In this article we provide guidance on how to determine if SDS is right for you, what type of SDS is right for you and when you should make your SDS move.
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hyper-convergence, Hyper-V, I/O, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, X-IO
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