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Analyzing Flash Adoption

Posted on December 13, 2013 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Flash, Intel, IOPS, Latency, PCI Express, Proximal Data, SanDisk, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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What Is Storage Caching?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

A cache in a manufacturing environment is an intermediate store of components or partially assembled products, often referred to as “in-process inventory”, that serves to make the overall production process more efficient. In a computer system, caches, also called “buffers”,…

Tagged with: Cache, CPU cache, Disk array, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, FlashSoft, SanDisk, Storage, Top10-2013, What Is
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How to Reduce Server-side Cache Risk

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Eric Slack

Storage caching enables the use of a very fast storage area, typically flash, to intelligently store the most frequently accessed data objects and improve application performance. Server-side caching uses one of a variety of flash based SSDs internal to the…

Tagged with: Cache (computing), FlashSoft, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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Maximizing Value in VMware Caching

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Eric Slack

Maximizing the value of a VMware caching solution involves more than developing algorithms to determine the hottest data and figuring out ways to keep that data in the cache. It also means getting the most out of that expensive flash…

Tagged with: Flash memory, FlashSoft, OpenVMS, SanDisk, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware, VMware vSphere
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The ROI of Server-Side Caching

Posted on September 18, 2013 by George Crump

Implementing server-side caching with the right solid state disk (SSD) can be like conducting a ‘surgical strike’ on storage performance problems. Installing this combination of hardware and software can eliminate the storage roadblock to increased transactions per second, while not…

Tagged with: Cache, Hard disk drive, PCI, RAID, SanDisk, Servers, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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Webinar – The Five Myths of Server-side Caching  – Separating Fact from Fiction

Posted on September 5, 2013 by George Crump

Server-side caching solutions seem to be the answer for every storage performance woe by enabling users to conduct a ‘surgical strike’ on storage I/O bottlenecks. But are they able to live up to all the hype? And what about the…

Tagged with: Cache, SanDisk, Server-side, Webinar
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Making Flash RAM Like

Posted on August 29, 2013 by George Crump

Server-side Flash and SSD has delivered significant storage I/O performance benefits to physical and virtualized host environments. While SSD provides many benefits, it is not without its drawbacks. By adding another device into a PCIe slot, for example, SSD resources…

Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash, Flash memory, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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Removing Flash’s Final Latency Roadblock

Posted on August 28, 2013 by George Crump

One of the key attributes of flash storage is its ability to remove storage I/O latency. The memory based storage technology can respond instantly to requests for data. However, flash’s zero latent nature exposes latency in other parts of the…

Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Hardware, PCI Express, SanDisk, SMART Storage Systems, Solid-state drive
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