Opinion
Opinion
Storage performance
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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Enterprise NAS performance challenges and how to resolve them
NAS storage can be used for mission critical workloads but NFS-based storage comes with performance challenges. Jim Bahn of Virtual Instruments outlines the main ones Continue Reading
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Software-defined storage: The reality beneath the hype
The rise of storage software and APIs on commodity hardware means there is something in the idea of software-defined storage. Continue Reading
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Storage arrays face two-pronged flash/cloud attack
The storage array as we know it could soon be a thing of the past, as hot data heads to flash and cold data goes to the cloud, leaving a slimmer array for bulk data on HDDs. Continue Reading