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Are Storage Infrastructures Fixing the Wrong Problem? – Formulus Black Briefing Note

Posted on April 10, 2019 by George Crump

When the CPU needs data, the role of the storage system is to transfer information into main memory so the CPU can process it. The memory channels between the CPU and main memory is very fast and the number of…

Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Formulus Black, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, NVDIMM, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SSD
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For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2018 by George Crump

A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…

Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
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ChalkTalk Video: Maximizing the Potential of NVDIMM Storage Class Memory with Software Defined Memory

Posted on December 15, 2015 by George Crump

Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…

Tagged with: Convergence, Flash, Next Generation, NVDIMM, Plexistor, Software Defined
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How NVDIMM Can Protect Flash SSD Appliances

Posted on June 27, 2013 by George Crump

As Storage Switzerland discussed in two articles recently flash based appliances are particularly vulnerable to power failures. This vulnerability is related to the way these appliances use DRAM to buffer writes and to store meta data tables. DRAM is volatile,…

Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Non-volatile memory, NVDIMM, Solid-state drive, Viking
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How to Solve the SSD Endurance Problem

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Eric Slack

As the storage medium for main memory DRAM is where the processing work gets done in application servers. It’s generally the fastest mass produced data storage area available and can support the nearly unlimited cycle of writes and overwrites that…