At Storage Switzerland we have been covering the move to memory channel storage for the last six months. It is the next logical upgrade from drive-attached and PCIe-attached flash storage. By putting the flash directly on the memory bus traditional…
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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013
As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that…
What’s The Difference Between Tiering And Caching?
Flash storage continues to be the “go to” option for IT professionals looking to solve performance problems, but these infrastructure designers are struggling with how to best implement flash. Automated tiering and caching are becoming common answers to that question.…
Tagged with: Caching, Flash, Hard disk, MLC, SLC, Software Defined Storage, Tiering, Write-back, Write-through
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Is All-flash Ready for the Data Center?
Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…
Webinar – How Server-Side Caching Can Compliment Networked Flash
Watch our On Demand Webinar to learn if Server Side Caching and Shared SSD Arrays need to be an either or proposition? Can the two technologies compliment each other? We think so! Whether you are adding flash to your current…
How to Prevent Noisy Neighbors
In response to my recent article, “What Is A Noisy Neighbor”, one of our reader’s asked if limiting the number of IOPS (via VSphere) on all but the most disk I/O intensive VMs would be a good approach for reducing…
How Do I Know My Virtual Environment is Ready For SSD?
The I/O Blender has reached an almost legendary status in virtualization circles. It is a term for what happens to storage I/O when in a virtual infrastructure. The I/O Blender is created when potentially hundreds of virtual machines across dozens…
Tagged with: CPU, Flash, IOPS, LUN, SolarWinds, SSD, Utilization, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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All-Flash Data Center – Sooner Than You Think?
John Scaramuzzo, Senior VP and General Manager at SanDisk, had the second keynote at Storage Visions 2014 in which he put forth the notion that an All-Flash data center may happen sooner than we think. There is no doubt in…
What Is A Noisy Neighbor?
The term “noisy neighbor” in the storage context refers to a rogue virtual machine (VM) that periodically monopolizes storage I/O resources to the performance detriment of all the other VM “tenants” in the environment. This phenomenon can become more pervasive…
Tagged with: Disk array, FIFO, Flash, I/O, LUN, PCIe, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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The 10 Year All-Flash Array – Will Your All-Flash Array Wear Out?
An All-Flash Array is a performance sledgehammer. It shatters the performance problems that most data centers face and will likely continue to do so for years. Unlike traditional hard disk systems, most data centers that purchase an All-Flash Array won’t…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Deduplication, Flash, Flash Array, Flash memory, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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