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As you will learn from this article, many users cannot today sort out the types of solid-state disks (SSD) on the market. This analysis of SSD architecture introduces the three main ways to deploy SSD: Inside the array, within the server, and using SSD devices. 　　Each has its pros and cons, including latency issues and performance levels. Few new technologies can simultaneously improve performance while reducing costs. However, the very interesting technology of SSD achieves this goal. Most of the major storage vendors are beginning to provide a full range of SSD products. ...

In general, San virtualization products are more prevalent than NAS virtualization products. NAS Virtualization products provide a "global namespace" feature, usually in a very large data sharing access environment to fully benefit, the majority of users have limited environmental complexity, and do not need to choose such products to solve the data sharing access path/directory too complex problems. In contrast, San virtualization products can be useful and more widely available even in small environments with only a 2~3 disk array and only hundreds of gigabytes of data. Current status of NAS virtualization products ...

With the help of Moore's law and Intel's "tock" strategy, the server processing capability has been improved rapidly in recent years, and the computing power is getting stronger, which contrasts with the stagnation of the development of traditional storage technology. Storage performance optimization issues have long been a hot topic of concern for business operators and data center managers, and even the pain of performance in the entire data center and the computer world. As data centers evolve toward cloud computing centers, how do you address the storage bottlenecks in cloud computing data centers? The traditional hard disk structure is limited to the Winchester principle, the internal hard disk magnetic disc ...

This article describes the three main ways to deploy SSDs: Within the array, within the server, and with SSD devices. Each has its pros and cons, including latency issues and performance levels. Few new technologies can simultaneously improve performance while reducing costs. However, the very interesting technology of SSD achieves this goal. Most of the major storage vendors are beginning to provide a full range of SSD products. Solid-State storage drives can be deployed in three different forms: array-based SSD is generally considered for deployment in a storage area network;

is direct-attached storage obsolete? Direct-attached storage is what we often call Das (direct-attached storage), usually the storage media that is installed inside the server or installed in an expansion enclosure directly connected to the server. There must be a fixed binding connection between the DAS storage and the server, so there is no network structure between them, but direct data read and write. Das has been considered a inefficient structure in the way servers and storage are connected, and it is not convenient for data protection. Direct-attached storage cannot be shared, so often out of ...

IBM pureapplication System (W1500 and W1700 v1.0 and v1.1) is a boxed cloud computing system with hardware and software to deploy and execute workloads in the cloud, with all the functionality required to add a private cloud environment to an enterprise data center. This article outlines the hardware contained in Pureapplication system and uses the system console to view individual components. This article is part 1th of a series of three articles that will introduce ...

It is reported that flash array start-up Solidfire launched a full flash array, with cross-references data deduplication, compression and automatic thin configuration, compared with traditional San arrays, effectively increased capacity, while reducing the cost per gigabyte. Vice president of Marketing, Jay Prassl, says Solidfire provides cloud-scale San block access and guarantees storage IOPS performance at thousands of levels in one infrastructure, you can adjust performance and specify three IOPS for each application: minimum, maximum, and burst mode. ...

North America's renowned storage maker OCZ recently announced a variety of SSD storage solutions at the COMPUTEX 2012 Taipei Computer Show next week, covering both the enterprise and consumer-level markets. On June 5, at the Taipei Computer Show on June 9, OCZ will showcase its enterprise-class, consumer-grade, new SSD storage solutions. In business, server, and OEM clients, OCZ is about to launch a PCI Express San acceleration and replacement solution, based on the new Everest 2 architecture intrepid 3 SATA ...

The Friday Beijing Rare 8-class gale weather, LSI 2012 Storage Forum held as scheduled. This is the first time the author to participate in LSI Annual Storage forum, in the meeting gap and next to a few people who participated in the forum last year, the participants were far more than last year, the site also has many users of LSI acceleration program and not listed new products show a strong interest. How do you meet the challenges of storage performance for different applications and data centers of different sizes in the face of small and medium-sized data centers, enterprise-class data centers, large data centers, and even cloud-based data centers? From the ...

In order to maximize the speed advantage of solid-state storage, more and more vendors are moving flash storage to the CPU that is closer to processing http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17326.html "> Storage data." Stec and OCZ Marvell Group also launched a flash memory device based on the pci-express (PCIe) bus interface last week. STEC Company is the first to enter the market, and launched a ...