Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash When re-thinking the storage architecture in the data center, the choice typically comes down to a few factors. The first is how much budget is there available? You can only buy the performance you…
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Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hardware, Server, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage Resource Management
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…
Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Dell, Dell Compellent, Flash, IOPS, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive
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HGST an SSD Powerhouse? Buys Virident for $685 Million
HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, announced that it will acquire Virident, a company rapidly becoming a resurgent force in the PCIe SSD marketplace. In addition to flash storage hardware Virident was hitting full stride with a line…
Tagged with: Acquisition, Enterprise storage, Flash, HGST, PCIe, SSD, VeloBit, Virident
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Making Flash RAM Like
Server-side Flash and SSD has delivered significant storage I/O performance benefits to physical and virtualized host environments. While SSD provides many benefits, it is not without its drawbacks. By adding another device into a PCIe slot, for example, SSD resources…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash, Flash memory, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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The Unknown Risk of SSD Mapping Tables
Solid State Disks (SSD) and Flash Appliances use mapping tables to track where data is stored on the flash device. These tables play a similar role to iNode or File Allocation Tables (FAT) and if they get corrupted or lost,…
Tagged with: DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Non-volatile memory, Skyera, Solid-state drive
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Automated Caching for the Virtualized Data Center
Many industry observers estimate that the server infrastructure in a typical data center environment is approximately 50% virtualized. As virtual machine (VM) density increases, conventional storage platforms are wilting under the pressure of managing highly randomized storage IO patterns. Indeed,…
Affordable High Performance PCIe SSD
Server Side Flash Acceleration Application owners that have not deployed server side SSD have generally relied on storage administrators to address I/O issues. Despite their best efforts, storage admins are a resource in high demand and as a result, they…
Assessing the All-Flash Array Market
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and offer a set of storage features like snapshots and replication similar to traditional hard drive based storage systems. The recent leaks of what EMC plans to do with the…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, GreenBytes, Hybrid array, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Total Cost of Ownership, VM-Aware Storage, ZFS
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Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and give a complete set of robust features like snapshots and replication, similar to traditional hard-drive based storage systems. While their performance enhancing potential is very appealing, All-Flash arrays have…
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