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…
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Memory Bus Flash delivers vSAN Performance Acceleration
Software defined storage solutions like vSAN are gaining increased attention. But vSAN systems can only support one flash device. The challenge is one flash device may not be enough to handle all the I/O throughput from multiple applications. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, CPU, Diablo, DIMM, Flash, MCS, Memory, Memory Bus Flash, Memory Channel Storage, Software Defined, VSAN
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Does Flash make everything in VMware Better?
Bacon makes everything taste better – at least for a lot of folks. At VMworld we met up with Micron, the flash manufacturers who are calling themselves “VMware’s bacon”. Their point is that flash makes everything in a virtual server…
The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
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All-Flash Architectures Matter
Flash can improve the performance of almost anything that it’s placed into, be it a laptop, a desktop, a server or a storage system. But to derive maximum benefit from a flash investment requires first that the combined workloads be…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HP, performance
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Are All-Flash Arrays ready for All Primary Data?
Flash has been making its way into data centers primarily as an accelerant to existing workloads. Most of that adoption has been in the form of a hybrid use case, the combination of flash and hard disk drives. As we…
Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World
As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
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Storage Developers: This One’s For You
Most IT professionals go to a trade show to learn, after all, knowledge is the stock in trade for our industry. But what about the professionals in the storage eco-system, the individuals that actually create the solutions that IT professionals…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, File system, Flash, Memory, Object Storage, SDS, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array
The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…
Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
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SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…
Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
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