Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
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Is it Time to Stop Worrying about Flash Wear Out?
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
Tagged with: Controller, Flash, Flash Wear, HDD, Micron, NAND, SSD, Total Bytes Written
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LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i
LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions, this product integrates PCIe flash, caching software and LSI’s MegaRAID technology into…
ChalkTalk Video: Server-side Flash Types and Use Cases
Putting flash in the application server is becoming the performance solution of choice, but how do you choose which type of flash to use? Let’s start by taking a look at the different types of SSDs available for use in…
Webinar Preview: Picking the right SSD for the job – Podcast
Micron’s Doug Rollins and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack talk about SSD and how to pick the right SSD for a specific job in your data center. This is a preview of a webinar coming up on May 14…
Tagged with: Doug Rollins, Eric Slack, Flash, Flash memory, Micron, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Switzerland, Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack, tools, Webinar
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Flash Wear and How it Impacts SSD Choice
Watch Now On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” to get an exclusive white paper Everything we use wears out and eventually falls apart, especially in mechanical systems like hard disk drives (HDDs). These marvels of modern…
VDI Storage Should Do More than Just VDI
What do companies expect from a VDI project? In the long run they expect more flexible device deployment, lower desktop support costs, and better protection from device and data loss. But short term, a VDI deployment can’t make things worse…
What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast
Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash…
Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Storage Architecture, Virtualization, VMware
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Load DynamiX Grabs EMC Connect Award
One of the final highlights here at EMC World 2014 was the announcing of the inaugural winners of the EMC “Connect” award. The EMC Technology Connect program consists of 3rd party solution offerings that have been certified by EMC to…
10 Reasons that Flash Belongs in the Server
Watch the On Demand Webinar “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash” Maintaining storage performance is something IT has to do and there are a lot of ways to do it. Some are easy, some are complicated, some are affordable,…
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