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...
Read More »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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Read More »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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