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…
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Maximizing Value in VMware Caching
Tagged with: Flash memory, FlashSoft, OpenVMS, SanDisk, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware, VMware vSphere
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SNIA Addressing Needs for Solid State Storage Education
At Storage Networking World (SNW) this year in Long Beach, CA, Storage Switzerland caught up with Storage Networking Industry Assn (SNIA) officers Wayne Adams and Molly Rector, to talk about what the organization has been doing recently and where things…
Tagged with: Hardware, IOPS, SNIA, SNW, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Networking Industry Association, Storage Networking World
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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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HGST an SSD Powerhouse? Buys Virident for $685 Million
HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, announced that it will acquire Virident, a company rapidly becoming a resurgent force in the PCIe SSD marketplace. In addition to flash storage hardware Virident was hitting full stride with a line…
Tagged with: Acquisition, Enterprise storage, Flash, HGST, PCIe, SSD, VeloBit, Virident
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Webinar – Comparing VMware Caching Techniques – Guest vs. Hypervisor
Caching has become the primary way way to integrate SSD into VMware Environments. Solutions have appeared that implement at the hypervisor layer and inside the VM at the guest OS layer but which caching technique is best? In this webinar,…
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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Hybrid Storage Needs SSD Cache Flexibility
While specialized all-flash storage systems grab the headlines, hybrid storage systems are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the data center, hosting the majority of applications, virtual machines and file shares. To expand the number of workloads that they can support…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, Hybrid drive, Nexsan, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Webinar – The Challenges With Server-Side SSD Caching in VMware Environments
VMware creates a storage performance challenge for almost any data center that has implemented virtualization. No matter the size of the environment, the fundamental issue is dealing with highly randomized storage I/O. The theoretical quick fix has been to embrace…
The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage
Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…
Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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