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News Analysis
Nexenta Deduplicates ZFS
Nexenta Systems Inc. has enhanced its NexentaStor 3.0 product to include in-line deduplication for Zettabyte File System (ZFS). The company also used NexentaStor 3.0 as the basis for its Nexenta Virtual Machine Datacenter (VMDC) 3.0 product, which adds support for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization environment.
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Architectures
Poor Performance Leads To Deployment Of SSD Technology for Aspirus
In the dynamic, growing industry of health care, IT systems increasingly impact how companies perform. Aspirus of central Wisconsin found that its main records management application was being bogged down by poor performance. In response, the firm decided to become an early user of Solid State Disk (SSD) technology, and the change had a dramatic impact on its system performance.
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Reviews & Workshops
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d: One Snazzy NAS
Feature-rich SMB and home office multi-terabyte storage products are falling below $1000, and these NAS devices support a variety of file protocols, are easy to install and manage, and now, don't cost an arm and a leg to run. The ix4-200d, which ships with 2, 4 or 8 TBytes, stacks up against storage NAS products like the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 or the QNAP TS-439, though the TS-439 has some more advanced features such as front removable drives and more RAID levels. After several months of testing and use, we can say Iomega delivers on its promise of a low-cost SMB NAS.
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Blogs
Will Cloud ISVs Determine Cloud Storage Winners?
March 12, 2010 11:31 AM
Posted by George Crump
Cloud storage providers are all actively pursuing Independent Software Developers (ISVs) to support their cloud at the back-end. The idea is to make cloud storage a simple option to your storage application of choice, making the use of cloud storage skyrocket. The provider with the most ISVs in their pockets wins. Will that strategy work?
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Issues With Automated Tiering
March 10, 2010 2:10 PM
Posted by George Crump
While the industry, myself included, has been busy extolling the virtues of automated tiering, it's important to understand that it's not a be-all-end-all for the storage manager. Certainly there is plenty to like but, there are a few caveats that you should be aware of. From a performance perspective most (if not all) automated tiering systems leverage SSD or RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. The upside of this, as we have discussed, is that it provides an automated way for storage managers to take advantage of SSD. The downside is that the rest of the environment has to be fast enough to take advantage of it. Putting a really fast drive at the end of a wire is not necessarily going to deliver better performance.
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FalconStor And Violin Add SSD To NSS
March 10, 2010 9:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
While I had been waiting for FalconStor to add flash support to their Network Storage Server (NSS) storage virtualization software, I was expecting flash volumes off a Fusion-IO or TMS PCIe flash card with promises of automated tiering to arrive sometime before Snow White's prince. I was pleasantly surprised when the folks at FalconStor called to tell me they were aiming a little higher than that and using Violin's solid state memory array as a cache.
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The Types Of Automated Tiering
March 9, 2010 8:00 AM
Posted by George Crump
Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data between tiers of storage, has several methods of delivery. There is some disagreement as to which is the "real" automated tiering. I'm not sure if from a storage manager's perspective it matters, but understanding the types of automated tiering will help you select the best method for your data center.
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Is All Storage Hype Bad?
March 4, 2010 11:39 AM
Posted by George Crump
Cloud Storage, Automated Tiering, FCoE and deduplication are the current over-discussed technologies in storage. At some point, a technology gets discussed so much that it becomes over-hyped. The reality is that most of the potential users of any of these technologies are not even close to adopting them. Especially right now, most IT professionals are just trying to keep their heads above water. Is all storage hype bad, though?
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Vendor Metamorphosis, Or Resurrection?
March 4, 2010 9:30 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Back in July, I was skeptical that longtime tape automation vendors Tandberg Data and Overland Storage would successfully transit the tempest that is the SMB storage market in the recession. Both are announcing products and road maps that fit their SMB customers better, and Overland has both managed to raise another $12 million and hire Geoff Barrall to be their CTO, which could keep them around long enough to deliver on the vision. MAID pioneer Copan wasn't so lucky, however.
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