Data center floor space is an increasing concern for IT managers. Once the walls of the data center have been reached, the only options are to either decrease the amount of devices in the current data center or to build…
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Rack Density – The Key to Maximum Virtualization ROI
Tagged with: Density, Nutanix, PCIe, RAM, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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What is a Flash OS?
Flash-based Solid State Devices (SSD) are more than just a collection of memory cards. They’re also not created equally. Components like the controller, backplane, and internal interconnect all are important differentiators when accessing Flash-based storage solutions. As these products have…
Highly Available, High Capacity SSD Solves Application Latency Problems
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has been building high performance, solid state storage systems for over three decades, laying claim to the “fastest storage on the planet” with their World’s Fastest Storage® trademark. The RamSan-720 added to this legacy with hardware…
Tagged with: Capacity, Density, Efficiency, eMLC, Flash, HA, Latency, RAID, Ramsan, SSD, Texas Memory
Posted in Product Analysis
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High Performance Storage For The SMB
As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,…
Tagged with: Drobo, ISCSI, OCZ, SMB, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine
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Why Flash Wears Out and How to Make it Last Longer
The life expectancy and durability of flash-based storage is a common topic in many presentations involving solid-state drive (SSD) products. While flash endurance is a prime factor in the economics of this technology, seldom is the audience given an explanation…
Tagged with: Bit Error Rate, ECC, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, HGST, MLC, Multi-level cell, Solid-state drive, SSD, sTec
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Is PCIe SSD Always Faster?
As Solid State Disk (SSD) has evolved many ways have been developed for it to be accessed by the applications that need performance acceleration. The connection between the application and the SSD is often made by the most available, least…
Achieving Maximum SSD Efficiency
There are two well-known facts about solid state disk (SSD). First, SSD is fast and second, SSD is expensive—compared with traditional disk drives. There are also two well-known facts about the data center. First, almost every data center needs more…
Tagged with: Data center, Deduplication, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD
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What is a Storage Controller?
Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…
Tagged with: Central processing unit, Controller, Data center, dual controller, Fibre Channel, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD, storage array, Storage Controller, Storage Hypervisor, storage system, storage systems
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OCZ SSD Keeps Shining
This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working…
Advancing The State Of Solid State Caching
Most applications could benefit from a faster infrastructure. Storage performance, especially IOPS, has been routinely identified as a primary impediment to improving compute infrastructure speed. Not surprisingly, customers are turning to Flash Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a solution to…
Tagged with: Cache (computing), Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD
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