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News and Analysis
4 Ways $50K Of Flash Can Boost Performance
You want to use solid state storage to boost your network's performance. Here's advice on adding SSDs without breaking the company.
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- EMC Enhances Flagship Storage Arrays
- 3 Fixes: Hybrid SSD Array Performance Gap
- NetApp Launches New Mid-Tier Storage Arrays
- Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Storage
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Architectures
Hard Rock Cafe Replaces Tape Backup With Disk
Since opening its doors in 1995, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has been on a growth spurt. It expanded in 1999 and is now undergoing another expansion that will more than triple its current size. But it's not just the Hard Rock's footprint that has grown substantially. So has its data, and the time it takes to back it all up. In fact, it was taking Hard Rock's IT department more than 24 hours to do full backups, which had to be done once a week. The rest of the week was spent doing incremental backups, which was also time-consuming.
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- SSDs Speed Up Online DBMS Performance
- MySpace Finds Unique Use For SSD Technology
- Poor Performance Leads To Deployment Of SSD Technology for Aspirus
- Full Disk Encryption Evolves
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Reviews & Workshops
Digital Hoarding: Do We Have a Problem?
Approximately 2.8 zettabytes of data were created and stored in 2012, and that number is expected to increase 50-fold by the end of the decade. When does data storage turn into data hoarding, and what are the consequences?
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Blogs
IBM Turns IT into Storage Service Provider
February 25, 2013 02:01 PM
Posted by David Hill
IBM's SmartCloud Storage Access turns premises storage into a service that IT can offer to internal users via a service catalog.
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Virident Unlocks PCIe Flash From a Single Server
February 22, 2013 11:20 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Virident is releasing software that makes PCIe flash behave more like a SAN or distributed cache, expanding the performance boost of PCIe flash across multiple servers.
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Server-Side Caching Gets Smarter Via Startup PernixData
February 20, 2013 03:25 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Startup PernixData uses a distributed, replicated write-back cache to take full advantage of SSDs in server-side caching while addressing the risks of server failure and data loss.
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EMC Merges High Availability, Disaster Recovery into One
February 15, 2013 12:52 PM
Posted by David Hill
EMC is combining products and services to turn high availability and disaster recovery into a single concept it calls Continuous Availability.
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SSD/Hard Disk Hybrids Bridge Storage Divide
January 30, 2013 08:03 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
Solid-state is creeping into every nook of the storage ecosystem. The next frontier could be the rebirth of hybrids. Case in point is a startup that combines SSDs and traditional disks to maximize both performance and capacity.
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Seagate Flashes $40 Million for Virident PCIe Cards
January 29, 2013 09:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Seagate announced a $40 million investment in Virident, which makes flash-based PCIe cards for servers. The move underlines the broad expansion of flash storage into multiple sectors of the enterprise market.
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VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
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: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
