The removal of latency is a critical part to delivering more fully on the flash performance promise. No matter how fast the flash technology becomes, the latency of its connection to the CPU is a key stumbling block in achieving…
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Overcoming The Flash Storage Latency Challenge
Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Flash, Latency, PCI Express, SanDisk, SCSI, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Analyzing Flash Adoption
In a recent webinar focused on reducing latency of the flash interconnect, we asked a polling question “Where do you primarily use flash today?”. As you can see from the results users are still trying to figure out how and…
Tagged with: Flash, Intel, IOPS, Latency, PCI Express, Proximal Data, SanDisk, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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Primary Storage Deduplication is Here
In our recent webinar, “The Truth About All-Flash Deduplication”, which is now available for on-demand viewing, we asked attendees where are they applying deduplication technology to improve storage efficiency. It was little surprise that backup storage, at 36% of the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Information technology, Permabit, Storage
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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What is Latency? And How is it Different from IOPS?
The typical performance metrics used to categorize flash performance are throughput and IOPS. The most important metric may actually be latency. The elimination of latency has become a top concern for customers and flash vendors. That has led to solutions that…
Scale Out or Scale Up? 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer
In theory, scale up storage appeals because the data center can start small and add capacity and performance as needed. Do these theoretical advantages apply to the use cases in which All-Flash storage is most commonly deployed; databases and virtualization?…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Latency, Pure, Scalability, Solid-state drive
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EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper
Next up at Storage Switzerland’s EMC Briefing Day was the Midrange part of EMC’s Enterprise & Midrange Storage Division, also known as the VNX family; and of course we are going to talk about the VNX2. The EMC VNX2 is…
Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, VNX
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Are You Planning For Storage Performance?
How to be intelligent about flash storage deployments Storage performance has become a “hot button” issue in the server virtualization era. While there is a need for high performance storage, such as flash and hybrid storage solutions, there is a…
Tagged with: Disk array, Flash, Hardware, IOP, Load DynamiX, Solid-state drive, SSD, SwiftTest
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Flash Aware Fibre Channel
The key objective for organizations investing in flash is to make sure that they are getting the maximum performance out of their premium investment. This means making sure that the application and storage infrastructures are optimized for the near zero…
Tagged with: CrossLink, Data center, Emulex, Fibre Channel, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, LUN, Storage area network
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Is Software The Key To The Flash War?
Interest in All-Flash storage systems is on the rise from the investment community and it is certainly attracting the interest of IT planners looking to create more scalable database environments and more densely populated virtual infrastructures. All-Flash systems enable scale,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, IOPS, Permabit, Skyera
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