The future is now. For years it seems like non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) has been a technology that is just over the horizon. While there have been some isolated use cases where the technology makes sense and is being used, we…
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SlideShare: Where is the All-Flash Data Center?
Find it With Multi-tiered Flash! The all-flash data center was to solve all our problems. We’ve had all-flash arrays for ½ a decade. Where are the all-flash data centers? The problem is that performance and cost have been opposing forces…
Webinar: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond – Everything You Need to Know
NVMe is an industry standard protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage like flash drives. It unleashes flash arrays from the chains of SCSI that hold it back. Register for our live webinar and learn what NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics…
End-to-End Data Management – Primary Data Briefing Note
The objective of data management is to make sure the right data is on the right type of storage at the right time. The problem is most vendors are too myopic in their treatment of the process. Vendors either focus…
StorageShort: The High Density Flash Performance Problem
Thanks to the ever increasing density of flash, petabytes of flash storage in a few rack units is now reality. Imagine fitting all of the data center capacity needs in a space smaller than half a rack. The problem, though,…
Data Center Modernization Needs Modernized Servers
Cisco UCS M5 Today’s data center is made up of hypervisors that control and provision compute resources and software that defines and allocates storage capacity. The software defined data center still needs an engine – and that engine is the…
Tagged with: Capacity, CISCO, Flash, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, NVMe, Optimization, Software Defined, VDI, VM
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NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics Critical To Next Generation Storage Architectures
The storage media used to be the slowest component within the storage architecture. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. While the performance and low latency of flash allows data centers to make significant steps forward in application scale…
When Will The Storage Performance Bubble Burst – Cisco Briefing Note
Many data centers are experiencing a performance bubble. They have more than they need. The move from high latency hard disk systems to almost zero latent flash arrays delivers dramatic performance in every case. But this bubble will burst and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Containers, FC, Flash, Hard disk, NVMe, SCSI, Virtualization
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The Impact of Extremely High Density SSD Drives – Viking Technology Briefing Note
The next generation of solid state drives (SSD) are coming to market. Some are focused on performance and are leveraging NVMe connectivity to reduce latency. Others are focused on extremely high capacity (50TBs+) and are designed for dense data center…
When Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
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