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Vendors Turn Flash To Cache, Saving Cash
October 20, 2011 11:35 AM
Ever since EMC announced that it was putting SSDs--or, as it calls them, Enterprise Flash Drives--into its disk arrays, we as an industry have been straining our little brains to figure out the best way to use flash memory to improve our storage. We've used flash as a storage tier inside disk arrays, as a cache in those arrays and as dedicated storage systems. More recently, we've started seeing a variety of server- or system-side caching solutions. Is server-side caching the answer?Purpose-Built Or Off-The-Shelf Hardware: A Tale Of Two Systems
September 15, 2011 02:05 PM
As AMD and Intel have boosted the performance of x86 processors, some industry observers have suggested that the days of custom hardware are numbered. Recent solid-state storage system announcements from Kaminario and Astute Networks demonstrate that this argument is far from over.Solid State Storage Market Heats Up
August 30, 2011 11:30 AM
In the roughly three years since EMC stuck some STEC SSDs in its disk arrays and brought solid state to the mainstream storage market, we’ve seen flash memory work its way into disk-based storage systems both modest and grand. During the past few months, we’ve also seen vendors targeting all-solid-state systems at mainstream users and applications. Most recently, all-solid-state pioneers Texas Memory Systems and Nimbus Data introduced new versions of their systems.EMC Struck By Lightning
May 18, 2011 10:30 AM
As I discussed in "The Elephant, The Blind Men and Fusion IO," the jury may be out on Fusion IO as a company, but it's indisputable that putting flash right on the server's PCIe bus keeps latency to a minimum and therefore maximizes application performance. Until now, the problem has been that PCIe flash is usually used to emulate wicked-fast direct-attached storage (DAS),and that means you have to choose between speed and the flexibility that VMware's vMotion provides. In addition to acting as DAS, EMC's new Project Lighting will also act as a cache to shared storage enabling vMotion.CacheIQ Rises From The Ashes Of StorSpeed
May 09, 2011 12:14 PM
While I've gotten used to the vulture-capital-driven creative destruction of companies in the tech business, even I sometimes get whiplash at how fast the VCs will eat their young. While cloud storage gateway vendor Cirtas is the latest example, NAS caching startup StorSpeed set a new land speed record coming out of stealth in October 2009 and blowing up just five months later. Now StorSpeed founder Greg Dahl, and a new executive team, have re-entered the market as CacheIQ.Solid "Slate" Storage
August 23, 2010 10:18 AM
In my last entry, I discussed how solid state storage could make its way into the enterprise. What is sometimes forgotten in that discussion is that the other markets solid state storage participates in potentially dwarf the enterprise market. One of the subjects made clear at the Flash Memory Summit was how big the market for smartphones and slates or tablets like the Apple iPad is going to become. Solid "slate" storage may end up dwarfing every other market that solid state storage participates in.SSD Failure Rates
July 26, 2010 01:00 PM
Ever since SSD drives began their slow march to mainstream storage, there has been a constant chorus over concerns about SSD failure rates and questions on if the technology was ready for the enterprise. Most of the concern lies around how many writes a SSD drive can sustain. Vendors of enterprise SSD drives have gone to great lengths to make sure that today's SSD drives used in the data center will not have premature write issues. With the improvements in the quality of the NAND and the capabilities of the Flash controller, if the right vendor is selected, Flash SSDs should outlive most mechanical drives.Deduplication And Solid State Disk, A Perfect Match?
June 30, 2010 08:00 AM
Solid State Disk (SSD) is the medium that storage managers are looking at to address storage performance problems in their environment. Deduplication is what they look at to address out of control capacity requirements. Rarely do you see the two technologies linked, but these two may be a perfect match.EMC FAST Brings Storage Tiering To Fibre Channel, SATA And Flash
December 08, 2009 10:45 AM
EMC today unveiled FAST, or "fully automated storage tiering" software, that analyzes data usage in its storage arrays and automatically moves data to the most optimal tier for performance, whether Fibre Channel, SATA or flash drives. The software works with EMC's Symmetrix V-Max and Clariion CX4 networked storage systems and its NS unified system.Toshiba Announces Shipments Of 43nm MLC Nand Solid State Drives To Major PC OEMs
August 06, 2009 11:54 AM
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