Medium- to large-sized data centers count on applications like Microsoft’s SQL Server to support applications that users need to become more productive so that the business can be more competitive. As these applications move into production the businesses become dependent…
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Optimizing MS-SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups With Server SSD
Tagged with: Business, Database, Direct Attached Storage, flash storage, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server, Replication, SQL, SQL Server, SSD, Top10-2013
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Cutting The Price On 1 Million IOPS
Marvell is a leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, basically they provide vendors with key components so they can deliver complete solutions to end users. Recently Marvell announced the 88N9145 native PCIe SSD controller which…
Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, IOPS, Marvell, PCI Express, Solid State, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Advancing the State of the Art in PCIe SSD
Solid State Drives (SSDs) that leverage the PCIe bus provide the ultimate storage I/O performance boost by providing the CPU with direct access to zero-latency storage. But all PCIe SSDs are not created equal. There is room for advancing the…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, MLC, Multi-level cell, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
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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Demo Day At The Flash Memory Summit
We wrapped up the Flash Memory Summit today with another round of briefings and we participated in a panel studying the state of the SSD market. Today was a little different than other days as we went down to the…
Tagged with: Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, OCZ, Solid-state drive, SQL, SSD, VMware, WhipTail
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Nimble Solves The Scale-Up or Scale-Out Dilemma
Nimble has recognized the challenge of growing storage systems in a performance-critical environment. With traditional, scale-up storage architectures, as more disk capacity is added storage controllers can become the bottleneck, causing performance to suffer. In scale-out storage systems, an appliance…
IBM Solidifies SSD Strategy With Texas Memory Acquisition
In what could be one of the most important acquisitions of the year, IBM today announced plans to acquire Texas Memory Systems. While the details will be presented later on today, we think this is an excellent move on the…
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
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
SSD’s Role In The Storage Ecosystem
In a few weeks I will be hosting a panel discussion at the ExecEvent in Palo Alto, CA on SSD’s Role in the storage ecosystem. The role of SSD depends on the use case. In performance demanding environments and large…
IBM Storage Makes Its SSD Case
At IBM Edge 2012 IBM made its case for having a better end-to-end solid state disk (SSD) strategy over its competitors. For the major suppliers (IBM, EMC, HP, Dell) there are several key locations where they need to be executing…
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