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Breaking Away From The Hybrid Storage Pack

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Eric Slack

Nimble Leverages Cisco UCS Partnership To Differentiate Itself Nimble was one of the first hybrid storage appliances on the market (hard disk capacity and SSDs in the same purpose built chassis) and they’ve shown impressive growth since their inception. Currently…

Tagged with: Hybrid, Hybrid array, Initial public offering, Microsoft, Nimble, SNW, Solid-state drive, VirtualBox, VMware View
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Fusion-io adds VDI Software and Hybrid Storage Solution

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Eric Slack

Companies are putting flash into application servers to accelerate performance hungry use cases like web scale and big social media environments. Now, users in the more traditional enterprise space are looking to server-side flash as well, to address their performance…

Tagged with: Flash memory, Fusion-io, Hybrid array, ioControl, NexGen, PCI Express, Storage, VirtualBox
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Hybrid Storage Needs SSD Cache Flexibility

Posted on August 6, 2013 by George Crump

While specialized all-flash storage systems grab the headlines, hybrid storage systems are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the data center, hosting the majority of applications, virtual machines and file shares. To expand the number of workloads that they can support…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, Hybrid drive, Nexsan, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Assessing the All-Flash Array Market

Posted on December 27, 2012 by George Crump

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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What Is Hybrid Storage?

Posted on December 17, 2012 by George Crump

Hybrid Storage is a term used to describe storage systems that are designed with a blend of flash-based solid state disk and hard disk drives to provide high performance at an affordable price. They try to address the dollar-per-IOPS vs…

Tagged with: Data deduplication, DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, Hybrid array, IOPS, Solid-state drive
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