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Overcoming the NVMe-oF Blame Game
Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) enables shared storage systems to achieve very low latency, to the point that they can now rival direct-attach storage solutions. Organizations no longer have to suffer through the inefficiencies of direct-attached storage, standard in…
Tagged with: CISCO, Container, DAS, FC, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, Shared Storage, Virtualization
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The Problems that Scale-Out Architectures Create
Data intensive workloads like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow, are unpredictable, making it very difficult to design flexible storage architectures to support them. In most cases, scale-out architectures utilize direct attached storage (DAS). While DAS delivers excellent performance to the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cassandra, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hadoop, Hyperscale, Kafka, Machine Learning, ML, Replication, Shared Storage
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Rethinking the SAN for the NVMe Era
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives promise new levels of ultra-low latency and fast performance. The media is beginning to find its way into the enterprise storage environments, on the back of the need to serve the growing number of…
Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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An AI Led Approach to Hyperconvergence – HiveIO Briefing Note
Adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) continues to soar, with a slew of vendors promising to eradicate storage complexity and to radically reduce IT costs. Unfortunately, many HCI solutions fail to keep promises made, especially as these architectures scale. Simplifying storage…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, HCI, HiveIO, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Hypervisor, Shared Storage, Virtual machine
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Lightboard Video: Overcoming the Challenges of Deploying NVMe Flash at Scale
The main advantages of NVMe flash drives are the low latency and high performance per drive. Those advantages are also the biggest challenges: each drive can generate hundreds of thousands of IOPS but if those drives are installed in a…
Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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Designing Storage for Multi-Million IOPS Performance – Apeiron Briefing Note
There is no doubt specific applications have an ever growing need for more IOPS, millions in fact, and the number of organizations implementing these applications is on the rise. The traditional bottlenecks to achieving millions of IOPS are gone. Networks,…
Tagged with: Apeiron, Compression, Deduplication, IOPS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
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Dramatic Improvements in Analytics Performance by Using Computational Storage – NGD System Briefing Note
The first step in providing an answer to any question is to narrow down the choices. Analytics applications, both modern and legacy, are no different. In response to a query, they must scan massive amounts of data to select the…
Tagged with: Computational Storage, DAS, Data Analytics, Encryption, IoT, NGD Systems, Shared Storage, SSD
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Simpler is Better – Solving Rack Scale Storage Problems – DriveScale Briefing Note
The storage infrastructure for multi-rack scale applications like Hadoop Spark, Cassandra, and CouchBase, are typically built using directly attached flash-based storage instead of a shared flash array. The motivation for using direct-attached storage (DAS) is simple. Media inside a server…
Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DriveScale, Flash, NVMe, NVMe-oF, RAID, SAS, Shared Storage, Snapshot
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Designing Storage for MongoDB, Spark, MySQL, and Cassandra – Pavilion Data Briefing Note
Modern applications like MongoDB, Spark, MySQL, and Cassandra are disrupting traditional storage architectures. To keep storage costs down and performance high these applications use direct attached PCIe flash storage. Many organizations are rapidly integrating NVMe. The problem is that direct-attached…
Tagged with: Cassandra, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, Latency, MySQL, NoSQL, NVMe, Pavilion Data, PCIe, Shared Storage
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