Virtualization creates a variety of unique factors that cause storage bottlenecks. An increase in application density, coupled with high volumes of randomized read and write requests, for example, place an increased burden on shared storage resources that ultimately has an…
Data deduplication has become a standard offering in backup product portfolios. As a technology that has been mainstream for over five years, some IT decision makers may tend to treat deduplication as an afterthought. In actuality, how data deduplication is…
PCIe based flash solutions remain a popular method for accelerating application performance. However, there’s a tendency to treat all these cards the same, which would be a mistake since there are vast differences between these offerings that can lead to…
Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in…
Texas Memory Systems was a personal favorite of mine so I had concerns when IBM acquired them in August of 2012. With cautious optimism, I’ve been watching IBM to see what they did with their savvy investment. The first step…
As we start 2014, storage is changing. The familiar dual controller, scale up architecture is potentially being replaced by a new set of architectures. Storage professionals now have to consider storage systems that can scale out or converge themselves with…
At Storage Switzerland we have been covering the move to memory channel storage for the last six months. It is the next logical upgrade from drive-attached and PCIe-attached flash storage. By putting the flash directly on the memory bus traditional…
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…
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…
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…
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