Shared storage using either a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) device enables many key features of the virtual server environment, such as virtual machine (VM) migration, distributed resource management and site recovery management. As a result…
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The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture
Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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How to Solve the SSD Endurance Problem
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…
Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, NVDIMM, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking
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Increasing VM Density With Server Side Caching
Increasing the number of virtual machines (VMs) per host is a critical next step in the design of virtualized server infrastructures so that the growth of virtual hosts does not begin to eat at the original ROI of the virtualization…
Tagged with: AutoCache, Cache, PCI Express, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere
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Integrating PCIe SSD Into The Storage System
The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage…
Advancing The State Of Solid State Caching
Most applications could benefit from a faster infrastructure. Storage performance, especially IOPS, has been routinely identified as a primary impediment to improving compute infrastructure speed. Not surprisingly, customers are turning to Flash Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a solution to…
Tagged with: Cache (computing), Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
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SSD DIMM – An Alternative to PCIe SSD
PCIe Solid State Disks (SSDs) have become extremely popular in a very short amount of time. They provide uncomplicated access to high performance storage, allowing latency problems to be solved where the application is run – on the server. And,…
Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, PCIe, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking, VMware
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What To Look For in Server Based SSD
As Storage Switzerland discussed in the article “What is Server Based Solid State Caching” there is much to be gained by moving solid state disk (SSD) closer to the application and its processor. The substantial reduction of network I/O and…
Tagged with: Cache, DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, EMC, Flash memory, Marvell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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OCZ Pushing The SSD Envelope
Solid State Storage (SSD) continues to gain interest in markets of all sizes, from user laptops to home gaming systems to small business servers to the enterprise itself. Very few companies cover that full spectrum like OCZ can. OCZ is…
Tagged with: Flash memory, IOPS, Multi-level cell, OCZ, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SandForce, Solid-state drive, SSD
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What is Server Based Solid State Caching?
Thanks to virtualization (server and desktop), cloud computing and big data, many environments are adding capacity to their storage infrastructures to meet performance demand. Essentially they are trying to provide the storage system with access to enough hard disk spindles…
Tagged with: Cache, Dell, Hard disk drive, Marvell, NetApp, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Western Digital
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