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What it will take for 10Gb networking to go mainstream

By on May 15, 2012 in blog

In this guest blog post on the Tintri blog, vExpert Bill Hill looks at what it might take for 10Gb Ethernet to go mainstream. Tintri VMstore typically uses a 10Gb connection. Enterprise IT is going through some significant growth right now. Virtualization has enabled a shift in how compute tasks are performed, and storage is [...]

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Security Concerns in Public Cloud Offerings, Part 2

By on May 3, 2012 in blog

In the first post of this series, we introduced the concept of cloud security. We considered the fact that security concerns change as soon as data leaves the protected corporate network. Concepts such as location of the data, who really owns the data, and accessibility were discussed. As you continue reading, please keep your environment [...]

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Security Concerns in Public Cloud Offerings, Part 1

By on May 1, 2012 in blog

The cloud is a natural extension of virtualization: Abstracted services freely float within a private cloud infrastructure, a public cloud infrastructure, or even a hybrid private and public infrastructure model. However, almost every IT vendor seems to have some cloud-focused solution to offer, with cloud-washed marketing to make it sound indispensible. Hosted email is no [...]

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The challenge of SSD in enterprise storage

By on April 25, 2012 in blog

SSDs are taking the storage industry by the storm by filling the ever-widening latency gap between other computing resources and hard drives. Almost every major storage vendor has a flash product now, but what is interesting is the differences in their approaches. Many have rushed to market with flash as a read cache for disks. [...]

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Accelerating virtualization with advanced snapshots and clones

By on April 2, 2012 in blog

As we were developing the Tintri OS 1.4 release (coming this summer), we looked at how customers are using our systems. We’re previewing Tintri’s new advanced snapshot and cloning capabilities with some early-access customers right now and seeing lots of eyes light up. There isn’t anything like this out there today that can truly snapshot [...]

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Flash-based server-side caching and what it means for storage

By on March 22, 2012 in blog

Solutions like Fusion-io have been around for some time. Typically, these products surround NAND-based local storage solutions. Moving application components to NAND storage provides significant IO benefits. Server vendors have profited by selling rebranded Fusion-io products, such as: IBM PCIe card as a performance disk tier HP mezzanine card for blade solutions Until the end [...]

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Beyond SSD: Flash is more than faster disk

By on March 15, 2012 in blog

Robin Harris of Storage Mojo in his recent article, “Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea?” and Matt Kixmoeller of Pure in his response, “The SSD is Key to Economic Flash Arrays,” presents interesting perspectives on whether or not SSDs are the best technology for building flash-based arrays.  Robin argues that by rethinking how flash can [...]

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Flash revolution, part 3: Intelligent flash-based products

By on March 14, 2012 in blog

In Part 1 of our series of flash storage, we looked at disk-based products using bolt-on flash as a cache. These systems still access disk in their basic data paths and cannot take full advantage of flash performance. In Part 2, we looked at flash-based products, which are designed to fully leverage flash. Flash-only products [...]

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Flash revolution, Part 2: Flash-based Products

By on March 6, 2012 in blog

In Part 1, we looked at disk-based storage that uses flash as a cache. Because disk-based products rely on disks as a key part of their basic data path, they have difficulty achieving flash-level latency and will be left behind by rapid improvements in flash performance. In contrast, flash-based products are designed specifically for flash [...]

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Flash Revolution, Part 1: Disk-based Flash Products

By on February 22, 2012 in blog

Flash is revolutionizing storage. The decades-long bottleneck in storage – disk spindles — is being obliterated! A single commodity SSD is 400 times faster than a hard disk.  In comparison, the speed of sound is “only” 250 times faster than walking! Moreover, flash will continue to scale with rapid improvements in semiconductor technology. While flash [...]

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