SSD Performance Accelerated A typical flash implementation constitutes less than 1% of the overall storage provisioned in a typical production environment. Consequently, systems planners have to exercise extreme prudence when deciding how to best utilize flash storage. They have to…
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Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Intel, IOPS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware
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Software Defined Hypervisors? HotLink Abstracts The Hypervisor
Last year the term, “software defined”, started to be used to describe how hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM could be used to allow IT to virtualize their entire infrastructure via the software hypervisor. There is software defined networking, software…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, CloudStack, HotLink, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Virtual machine, VMware
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Easy, Effective and Efficient Server SSD Caching
SSDs (solid state devices) are becoming more mainstream and now ‘placement’ technologies like caching are getting increased attention as users strive to get the most out of their solid state investments. Caching primary disk storage with NAND flash can improve…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, HyperCache, Linux, Solid-state drive, SSD, VeloBit, VMware, Windows
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups
Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
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Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and give a complete set of robust features like snapshots and replication, similar to traditional hard-drive based storage systems. While their performance enhancing potential is very appealing, All-Flash arrays have…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Computer data storage, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, Pure, Solid-state drive, VMware
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OCZ’s VXL Solves the “DAS Problem” of PCIe Flash
Storage problems are ‘taking the fun’ out of virtualization. Legacy storage systems can’t keep up with the performance demands of highly random workloads that server virtualization environments generate. Because of this, companies are seeing these deployments make for much lower VM…
Tagged with: flash storage, ISCSI, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage
Server and desktop virtualization has given IT the flexibility to respond to the needs of the business rapidly while at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiency. These abilities though have created a greater challenge for the supporting storage…
The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture
Shared storage using either a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) device enables many key features of the virtual server environment, such as virtual machine (VM) migration, distributed resource management and site recovery management. As a result…
Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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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
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