“Software Defined Storage” SNIA Whitepaper from Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, February 6th 2015

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Evaluator Group analyst and SNIA Board Member recently published a whitepaper for SNIA entitled "Software Defined Storage." The description of the paper is taken from SNIA Europe's website. This new whitepaper takes a look into attributes of SDS, the role...

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What happened to the promise of faster flash performance? TechTarget article by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Tuesday, January 6th 2015

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IT managers are being convinced by storage vendors that solid-state flash storage will accelerate their applications by magnitudes. But after deploying solid-state storage, many see only modest performance gains or no performance improvement at all. So, what happened to the promise...

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Storage networking catching up to SSD performance, TechTarget article by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Monday, November 24th 2014

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The storage industry has made a quantum leap in performance and latency with solid-state storage. Now storage networking technologies are playing catch-up so applications can utilize the maximum performance and low latency that solid-state technology offers. New fabric capabilities that increase performance and scale...

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Don’t use server benchmarks to measure storage performance, Computerworld blog by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Thursday, October 2nd 2014

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To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the maximum performance of the server -- NOT the storage. Even if external storage...

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Dot Hill Analyst Day 2013

By Leah Schoeb, Wednesday, April 17th 2013

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The Dot Hill 2013 Analyst Day was very informative about their latest technology and direction. Many people don’t recognize the Dot Hill name because they are an OEM storage provider. For those not familiar with Dot Hill, they have had...

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Choosing the appropriate page size for sub-LUN automated tiering – Leah Schoeb on SearchSolidStateStorage

By Leah Schoeb, Monday, March 4th 2013

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Automated tiering has become a popular offering among most major storage vendors. The ability to automatically and intelligently move part of a LUN or volume to the appropriate storage media based on performance requirements or frequency of use has shown a performance...

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“Should you believe vendors jaw-dropping solid-state performance specs?” – Storage Magazine by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, January 11th 2013

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Leah Schoeb writes on measuring and comparing Solid-State performance for Storage Magazine. Read the StorageMagazine Article

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HP EVA to 3PAR Online Import for EVA-to-3PAR StoreServ Migration Validation

By Leah Schoeb, Wednesday, December 5th 2012

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There are many events that can trigger the need for a data migration.  Some datacenters do migrations on a weekly basis.  A technology refresh, server and/or storage consolidation, infrastructure relocation, data classifications are all events that could cause a need...

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Power Performance and Efficiency at the Green Data Center Conference

By Leah Schoeb, Saturday, October 13th 2012

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I presented a session on the SNIA Green Storage Initiative's Emerald Program and the work the GSI are doing with the EPA who is about to release their first specification for the Energy Star Program for Data Center Storage with...

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Storage Alignment or the lack there of…

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, September 21st 2012

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Storage Misalignment has been a performance issue that has been around for a long time. It can contribute to as much as a 30% loss in performance is not resolved.  It has always been a consideration in the physical environments...

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