The main advantages of NVMe flash drives are the low latency and high performance per drive. Those advantages are also the biggest challenges: each drive can generate hundreds of thousands of IOPS but if those drives are installed in a…
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Lightboard Video: Overcoming the Challenges of Deploying NVMe Flash at Scale
Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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Consolidation: The Key to Early NVMe Success
As Storage Switzerland previously blogged, non-volatile memory express (NVMe) access protocols stand to add value to a host of applications, ranging from the performance-intensive newer workload set (e.g. artificial intelligence) to more traditional Tier 1 applications (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server).…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ML, NVMe, ROI, SAS, SCSI, SQL, Western Digital
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SlideShare: Myth Busting – The Four NVMe Myths
NVMe enables storage system vendors to once again raise expectations on the performance capabilities of all-flash arrays. NVMe provides a higher command count, greater queue depth and leverages the PCIe interface to deliver a significant increase in IOPS potential with…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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The Future of HCI: 2019 Edition
The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has entered a new phase of maturity, as evidenced by recent technology developments as well as vendor consolidation. For IT professionals, this maturity has two significant takeaways. From a technology perspective, HCI brings a compelling…
Using Workload Simulation to Justify the Shift to NVMe
The introduction of the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage protocol brings with it a new storage performance tier. Whereas older Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standards were designed for slower-performing hard disk drive (HDDs) and…
Tagged with: Analytics, ATA, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, IOPS, NVMe, Object Storage, ROI, SANBlaze, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Do Deduplication and Compression Impact All-Flash Performance?
For most IT shops, flash storage has become an established component of the storage architecture. The conversation has become less about whether or not the performance acceleration that flash technologies provide is needed; it has become more about which workloads…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, TCO, Western Digital
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Designing Storage for Multi-Million IOPS Performance – Apeiron Briefing Note
There is no doubt specific applications have an ever growing need for more IOPS, millions in fact, and the number of organizations implementing these applications is on the rise. The traditional bottlenecks to achieving millions of IOPS are gone. Networks,…
Tagged with: Apeiron, Compression, Deduplication, IOPS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
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Webinar: Myth Busting – The Four NVMe Myths
NVMe enables storage system vendors to once again raise expectations on the performance capabilities of all-flash arrays. NVMe provides a higher command count, greater queue depth and leverages the PCIe interface to deliver a significant increase in IOPS potential with…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Dashboarding Diverse Storage Infrastructures
The previous blog in this series outlined the advantages of a diverse storage infrastructure; flexibility, workload specific performance, and hard-cost savings. The challenge with a diverse storage infrastructure is how to manage it. In prior blogs, we’ve looked at several…
Tagged with: Flash, HCI, IOPS, Migration, NAS, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl, VDI
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Delivering Storage for Web-Scale IT in the Enterprise – Excelero Briefing Note
A web-scale data center needs to scale to support thousands if not millions of users. Web-scale application use cases range from traditional transactional IT to modern data analytics and machine learning workloads. It also includes new advanced video applications and…
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