It is no secret that one of the most difficult challenges with virtualization is managing the storage where VMs reside. The problem starts with the fact that VMware has historically known very little about the storage VMs are using. This…
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Can Scale-Up Storage be Scaled-Out?
Is it possible to scale-out your scale-up storage solution even though it wasn’t built to do that? The only question is how you’re going to scale it out. Most methods of scaling (both out and up) add to complexity. So…
Tagged with: Capacity, Latency, performance, Primary Data, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems
E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only…
Tagged with: E8, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, SSD
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Flash Memory Summit Video – What is NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics with Mangstor
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Using Software To Achieve Full Flash Potential
It is no longer “good enough” to have flash in the server. Where it is in the server is also of vital importance. Moving flash from the SAS interface to the PCI interface to the memory bus has significantly lowered…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Software Defined Storage and Flash
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is nothing new, vendors have been presenting it under different names for years. But SDS really had not taken off, it was hindered by a lack of CPU power and highly latent hard disk performance. The…
Hardware Matters More Than Ever
Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, Memory, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined, Violin Memory
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Flash As Memory Instead of Storage
Diablo Technologies Memory1 Briefing Note Flash is typically thought of as a fast alternative to storage, the ultimate hard drive upgrade. But it is memory, so there is no reason IT can’t use it as an alternative to DRAM. The…
24 Million IOPS on a Single Device
Crossbar Briefing Note Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is the nirvana of the memory and storage market. It provides most of the speed and durability of RAM but the persistence of flash. The combination should drive both in-memory computing initiatives and high…
Tagged with: Crossbar, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IOPS, IoT, Latency, Memory, NVM
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Faster Flash with NVMe Over Fabrics
Broadcom Briefing Note No matter how fast the storage infrastructure is, IT professionals can count on users and application owners to want more. Flash storage goes a long way toward appeasing the appetite for performance. But it is the constant…
Tagged with: AFA, Broadcom, Fibre Channel, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, NVMe, performance, SCSI, SSD
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