As we approach the last quarter of 2014, IT professionals are reaching out to me about what their flash strategy should be in 2015. Many are looking to move beyond the adoption phase that addresses point solutions and into a…
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OCZ’s Enterprise SATA SSDs deliver consistently better performance
Flash is replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more environments, and not just as boot drives for PCs and laptops. Enterprises are turning to a new class of high performance SATA-based drive form-factor SSDs to accelerate databases, push…
Storage Q&A: Three keys to choosing the right Server Flash
Need flash? Think all flash is the same? You might want to read the Q&A from a recent webinar we did with Doug Rollins at Micron. People attending the webinar asked the questions and Doug provides the answers, along with…
Is it Time to Stop Worrying about Flash Wear Out?
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
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Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?
Adding flash to disk array systems was inevitable, as spinning disk-based storage hit the performance wall and virtualization kept pushing the demand for more IOPS. These early systems were expensive, implementation was difficult and feature sets were extremely basic or…
SLC vs MLC – does it matter any more?
When an IT professional starts looking into solid state drives (SSDs) they quickly learn that flash is very different from magnetic disk drives. Flash employs a much more complex write and erase process than traditional hard disk drive (HDD) technology…
Proving That All PCIe SSDs Are Not Equal – The Huawei Tecal ES3000
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…
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…
What is a Flash OS?
Flash-based Solid State Devices (SSD) are more than just a collection of memory cards. They’re also not created equally. Components like the controller, backplane, and internal interconnect all are important differentiators when accessing Flash-based storage solutions. As these products have…
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