Storage performance
Buying wisely and tuning your storage infrastructure for the best possible storage performance is vital to ensure the business is adequately supported. Understanding storage performance starts when you begin to evaluate manufacturers’ products and continues as you set up, configure and tune storage hardware to suit your workloads.
NVMe 101: The early bird catches a big advantage
Designed as a storage protocol for the performance and characteristics of flash, NVMe is much, much more. Making flash actually "flash", NVMe will replace the SAS and SATA bottleneck protocols and bring shared arrays blistering performance.
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News : Storage performance
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April 18, 2018
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Apr'18
Backup 101: Incremental vs differential backup
In this Backup 101 article, we look at incremental versus differential backup and walk through the advantages and disadvantages of these two key backup strategies
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April 12, 2018
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Apr'18
Security Center of Iceland dumps EMC big iron for StorMagic SvSAN
Icelandic security company threw EMC VNXe “in the bin” and deployed StorMagic software-defined storage SvSAN to gain 4x boost in IOPS and slashed admin overhead
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March 27, 2018
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Mar'18
Pivot3 Cloud Edition adds backup from hyper-converged to AWS
Hyper-converged infrastructure node maker dips its toes into hybrid cloud operations with Pivot3 Cloud Edition on Amazon Web Services to add cloud backup to HCI
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February 20, 2018
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Feb'18
Load Dynamix is now WorkloadWisdom and adds more NAS support
Virtual Instruments enhances NAS testing and monitoring capabilities with SMB and 25GbE support in WorkloadWisdom but hybrid cloud monitoring will remain off limits for now
In Depth : Storage performance
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Storage class memory set to upset hardware architectures
Storage class memory and persistent memory products are set to add a layer of superfast storage media between bulk drives and memory, pushing performance to five million IOPS Continue Reading
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Who needs hybrid cloud object storage?
Hybrid cloud object storage products are an emerging category. But what use cases are driving their emergence? And which suppliers lead the way? Continue Reading
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Storage 101: How to create, share and manage a LUN in SAN storage
Despite pronouncements from some, the days of the logical unit number (LUN) are not over. We look at the LUN in SAN management: How to create, share, provision and manage a LUN Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Storage performance
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Open for business: Hortonworks aims for open source profitability
It used to be the Hadoop Summit, but the strategic focus at Hortonworks the enterprise-ready open source Apache Hadoop provider, has evolved. So, this year it was renamed DataWorks Summit. The ... Continue Reading
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NVMe gives "shared DAS" as an answer for analytics; but raises questions too
Go back 10 or 20 years and direct-attached disk was the norm. IE, just disk in a server. It all became a bit unfashionable as the virtualisation revolution hit datacentres. Having siloed disk in ... Continue Reading
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Veritas & Red Hat buddy up to toughen up OpenStack
Veritas and Red Hat have announced a collaboration aimed at supporting business critical enterprise applications on OpenStack. Essentially, the work here is focused on providing predictable quality ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Storage performance
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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