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Increasing VM Density With Server Side Caching

Posted on July 23, 2012 by George Crump

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

STORServer Upgrades and Extends Backup Appliance Line

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Eric Slack

When disk drives started to become economically feasible for backup, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) were the solution most manufacturers came up with to incorporate the benefits of disk into their existing tape-oriented environments. Since they were built around legacy backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Bare-metal restore, IBM, STORServer, TSM, Virtual Tape Library, VMware, VTL
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming The All Flash Cost Challenge

Posted on March 28, 2012 by George Crump

If all storage were the same price, all storage would be solid state storage. We would end data tiering, there would be no performance tuning and the discussion of storage performance problems would be a thing of the past. Of course all…

Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Multi-level cell, Pure, SLC, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, storage efficiency, VMware
Posted in Article

Online Analytics Company Leverages Isilon’s Scale Out Storage for Big Data and Virtualization

Posted on January 10, 2012 by George Crump

One of the big challenges faced by today’s data center is dealing with the mixed workloads that applications like analytics, back-office operations and server virtualization present to the storage infrastructure. In many instances IT professionals are faced with having to…

Tagged with: EMC Isilon, Information technology, Isilon, Network File System, NFS, Server Message Block, Virtual private server, VMware
Posted in Case Study

SSD DIMM – An Alternative to PCIe SSD

Posted on August 26, 2011 by George Crump

PCIe Solid State Disks (SSDs) have become extremely popular in a very short amount of time. They provide uncomplicated access to high performance storage, allowing latency problems to be solved where the application is run – on the server. And,…

Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, PCIe, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking, VMware
Posted in Article

What To Look For in Server Based SSD

Posted on August 9, 2011 by George Crump

As Storage Switzerland discussed in the article “What is Server Based Solid State Caching” there is much to be gained by moving solid state disk (SSD) closer to the application and its processor. The substantial reduction of network I/O and…