Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)
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News : Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)
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September 28, 2017
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Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’
Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe
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September 26, 2017
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Tegile says NVMe bottleneck is in the network
Tegile's chief technology officer says the NVMe roadmap is all in place, but the key bottleneck is in the network and the applications, not its controllers. They’re ready to scale out into clusters for NVMe
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September 20, 2017
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Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances
Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system
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September 14, 2017
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Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics
Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV
In Depth : Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)
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Storage 101: The IoT’s impact on storage
The internet of things will have a huge impact on storage – the sheer volume of data, the radically different types of data created, and the storage needed, from flash to object to cloud Continue Reading
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Q&A;: NetApp’s storage play in the age of cloud
Storage supplier’s Asia-Pacific general manager reveals the changes that are taking place within the company to keep up with the changing tech landscape Continue Reading
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Hyper-converged choices: DIY HCI software deployments
What are the advantages of do-it-yourself hyper-converged infrastructure deployment and who are the key suppliers of HCI software? We run the rule over the DIY hyper-converged market Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)
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Is hyper-converged the answer to the NVMe bottleneck?
NVMe offers huge possibilities for flash storage to work at its full potential, at tens or hundreds of times what is possible now. But, but it’s early days, and there is no universally-accepted ... Continue Reading
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NVMe’s predicted ascendancy clouded by architectural hurdles
More than 70 vendors will be involved in the NVMe flash market by 2020 and the market will be worth $57 billion. Meanwhile, nearly 40% of all-flash arrays will be based on NVMe drives by 2020. ... Continue Reading
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The brain as a model for data storage
The future of data storage will not be in the binary switching of electrical cells as in flash storage. It may also not be in magnetism-based potential successors to flash such as Racetrack Memory, ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)
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IT transformation brings storage transformation
IT departments’ moves away from specialised skills to generalist skillsets are fuelling the rise of easy-to-use hyper-converged infrastructure and all-flash storage systems Continue Reading
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Solid state storage in the datacentre: More than a flash in the pan
As IT organisations transform their datacentres to meet the efficiency and agility demands of the digital enterprise, flash storage is increasingly viewed as a key element Continue Reading
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Server-side flash cache pros outweigh cons for many
Server-side flash offers sub-millisecond latency that can be targeted at specific apps, which is why it has caught on fast for databases and VDI Continue Reading