Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash When re-thinking the storage architecture in the data center, the choice typically comes down to a few factors. The first is how much budget is there available? You can only buy the performance you…
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Part II – Selecting The Right Storage Architecture Design
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hardware, Server, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage Resource Management
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…
Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo Test Drive
It seems like it took forever but thunderbolt enclosures are finally coming to market. One of the first ones we have had a chance to get our hands on is the Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo. This dual drive unit allows…
Tagged with: Akitio, Drive bay, Hard disk drive, Neutrino, Samsung, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, Test Drive, Thunderbolt
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Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it
olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…
Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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The ROI of Server-Side Caching
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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Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?
Dot Hill is a storage array manufacturer that’s built a name for itself primarily in the OEM world. They’ve been manufacturing mid-range storage arrays for over 25 years, currently supporting HP, Lenovo, Stratus, Quantum and a number of other vendors,…
Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Dell, Dell Compellent, Flash, IOPS, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive
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Making Flash RAM Like
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
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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Permabit Albireo VDO Test Drive
Permabit was making a strong presence at the Flash Memory Summit and based on their meeting schedule Flash vendors are listening. From what we have learned in our testing of the Albireo VDO solution there should be a long line…
Tagged with: Albireo, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, Permabit, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Switzerland
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