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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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