Solid-state storage
Solid-state storage is becoming common for SAN, NAS and even emerging systems such as hyper-converged infrastructure. Look for guidance and advice on solid-state storage topics such as solid-state drives (SSDs) and devices, SSD prices and performance, solid-state memory, flash memory, and emerging flash technologies such as NVMe, Optane and 3D XPoint.
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Solid-state storage News
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April 06, 2021
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Apr'21
New Vast Data Gemini selling model offers better economics
Vast Data now allows customers to buy integrated appliances on hardware with the capacity and performance levels of their choice, with full transparency on the hardware costs.
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March 30, 2021
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Mar'21
Pure Storage combines FlashBlade with Portworx PX-Backup
Pure Storage's joint product with Portworx gives customers a way to quickly recover container applications in case of failures by combining flash storage and PX-Backup.
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March 30, 2021
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Mar'21
Fungible computational storage eyes composable use cases
Fungible's computational storage anchors a new offering for composable infrastructure. The Fungible Data Center license allows IT teams to consume resources on demand.
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March 24, 2021
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Mar'21
Pure Storage FlashBlade anchors B2B marketer's Azure cloud
Digital marketing specialist MultiView deployed a physical Pure Storage FlashBlade for production data, with the ability to consume all-flash storage as a virtual array in Azure.
Solid-state storage Get Started
Bring yourself up to speed with our introductory content
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erasure coding
Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across a set of different locations or storage media. Continue Reading
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NOR flash memory
NOR flash memory is one of two types of non-volatile storage technologies. Continue Reading
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workload
In computing, a workload, typically, is any program or application that runs on any computer. Continue Reading
Evaluate Solid-state storage Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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The best enterprise storage arrays of 2020
Vast Data, Dell EMC and Infinidat show that flash storage rules the data center in the 'Storage' magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year 2020 disk and disk subsystems category. Continue Reading
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What the 4 PMem App Direct Modes mean for your organization
Do you know the difference between the four Intel Optane persistent memory App Direct Mode types? Find out how you can use each of them most effectively. Continue Reading
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4 sources of storage latency and PMem's emerging role
Controllers, the software stack, and external and internal interconnects have an outsized impact on storage latency. Learn about their affects and how PMem is countering latency. Continue Reading
Manage Solid-state storage
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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These 5 IT buzzwords for 2021 reflect data storage priorities
As a mature IT discipline, the pace of change in storage has slowed, but there is still plenty of buzz about underlying technologies you'll need to know about in 2021. Continue Reading
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With release of vSphere 7, VMware takes NVMe-oF mainstream
VMware's support of NVMe-oF means organizations might be able to significantly improve the performance of their application environments without changing any data center hardware. Continue Reading
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NVMe-oF performance monitoring best practices that work
Don't let your storage network infrastructure get in the way of delivering NVMe-oF's low-latency benefits. See how these best practices can fix problems before they occur. Continue Reading
Problem Solve Solid-state storage Issues
We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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3 ways to ease the green data storage transition
Energy-efficient storage promises several benefits. Finding the right approach requires carefully assessing available technology, where you keep your data and costs. Continue Reading
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How key factors in storage performance and cost spur adoption
It may take years, but a storage product's performance, cost and the problems it solves can converge to make its sales take off. See how a storage technology's tipping point is reached. Continue Reading
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The differences between SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC and PLC
Learn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multi-layer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. Continue Reading