BitMicro is announcing a new line of PCIe flash cards to address a need in the market for higher capacity server-side SSDs. Historically focused on military and industrial applications, the MaxIO SSD line should give BitMicro a solution that also…
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BitMicro’s 6TB PCIe provides high-capacity Server-side Flash option
Tagged with: BitMicro, Flash, High Capacity, IOPS, PCIe, Server-side, Solid State, SSD
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Dell – Delivering Flash the way customers want
Flash consumption by the enterprise data center is typically done as a response to a specific performance problem. The flash purchase that often results are typically either an all-new flash array or it is added to an existing array. The…
Tagged with: Compellent, Data migration, Dell, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, SLC
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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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Nimble’s Adaptive Flash extends the range of Hybrid Arrays
Choosing a storage system has always involved tradeoffs, often between performance and capacity. This has been the case with flash-based systems where buyers have typically decided on hybrid arrays when capacity was more important and all-flash arrays when performance was…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, All-Flash, Capacity, CASL, Cluster, Flash, Nimble, performance, SSD
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SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference – For Storage Engineers by Storage Engineers
Keeping up with all the changes taking place in the storage industry is a major challenge for today’s storage architect. From high performance flash storage and cloud oriented object storage systems to software defined storage and big data analytics platforms,…
Tagged with: file sync and share, Flash, PCIe, SAS, SDS, Server-side, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?
Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an example,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, DRAM, Efficiency, Flash, Hard Disk Array, MLC, RAID, SLC, TLC, Virtualization
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Making Storage Software better – The Storage Developer Conference
Most storage start-ups today are software focused. They create a storage solution out of software and then either leverage off the shelf storage hardware or allow the customers to build the rest of the solution themselves. The software first approach…
Tagged with: file sync and share, Flash, PCIe, SAS, SDS, Server-side, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Flash Performance vs Flash Features
Recently, Robin Harris over at Storage Mojo made a statement that caused a stir with both users and the industry. My summation of his column and subsequent defense of that column, is that he believes that the performance of a…
Who needs Cloud Storage – Violin delivers pay as you grow Flash
One of the challenges that every IT planner is trying to figure out is what size, both in terms of capacity and performance, storage system they should invest in. They need to make sure that the storage system will not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hyper-V, Migration, Mirroring, performance, Scale-Out, SQL, Violin
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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…
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