Enterprise
Why IT Shops Are Going For All-Flash Datacenters
If space, power consumption, and raw I/O performance were not an issue, most datacenters would continue to use disk drives for their tier one storage until the end of time. …
Flash
HPC
Still Shrouded in Stealth, DSSD Proves Early Performance at Scale
Around this time last year, EMC announced the acquisition of DSSD, a storage acceleration startup founded by a slew of ex-Sun leads, including Andy Bechtolsheim (one of the original Sun founders), Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of Sun’s ZFS file system) and led by Bill Moore as CEO (former head of storage at Sun). …
Cloud
Flash Gears Up To Displace Disk In Datacenters
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
Enterprise
VSAN Ready For All Enterprise Workloads
The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look to simplify their infrastructure for supporting virtualized applications in their datacenters. …