Storage Media Group senior news director Dave Raffo and news writer Todd Erickson spoke with associate site editor John Hilliard about solid-state drive (SSD) adoption and hard disk drive (HDD) purchasing decisions, as well as Erickson's story this week on QLogic Corp. and it's server-side-flash cache-sharing technology.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Storage Radio: SSD vs. HDD, QLogic and more
This week's edition of Storage Radio focuses on a network-led, server-side flashing product and the solid-state drive versus hard disk drive comparisons many users are making.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Nimbus adds management, analytics for Gemini all-flash array
All-flash array startup Nimbus Data upgraded its HALO operating system today, adding system analytics, an open application programming interface and a mobile management feature.
The new features are a sign that early all-flash vendors such as Nimbus realize that having solid-state drives (SSDs) in their arrays are not enough to make them all-purpose storage providers. They also must develop management and monitoring features to hold off competition from larger vendors, such as EMC and NetApp, who are coming into the all-flash market.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
QLogic Mt. Rainier FabricCache pools PCIe flash cache across servers
QLogic Corp. today launched the first product based on its Mt. Rainier server-side flash cache-sharing technology. The FabricCache QLE10000 Fibre Channel host bus adapter enables pooling of cache across solid-state PCI Express cards.
QLogic refers to the FabricCache card as a "caching SAN adapter." Clustered servers running FabricCache adapters can access and utilize all of the combined caches in the cluster.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sanbolic gives Melio clustered file system a distributed architecture
Sanbolic Inc. today launched its Melio 5 clustered file system and volume manager software with a new distributed architecture to turn commodity hardware into scale-out storage systems that take advantage of such flash resources as PCI Express cards and solid-state drives.
Melio 5 is host-based distributed software that creates storage nodes on commodity hardware, then clusters the nodes and provides RAID data protection capabilities for high availability. Melio 5 is designed to scale up to 2,048 nodes or 65,000 storage devices.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Hospital deploys Pure Storage all-flash storage for EHR, VDI
After finding that even a hybrid flash array failed to prevent its most important application from slowing to a crawl during activity spikes, Riverview Hospital switched to an all solid-state array to reduce latency and handle writes faster.
Riverview Hospital is a full-service county hospital in Noblesville, Ind., with 154 beds, 20 off-site facilities and nearly 1,200 employees.
Early this year, the hospital switched to an 11 TB Pure Storage FlashArray to increase the IOPS available for a few critical applications, mainly its Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc.'s Pro electronic healthcare records (EHR) system, a 550-seat VMware Inc. View 4.6 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment, and Citrix Systems Inc. XenApp virtual servers.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Micron brings out 2.5-inch SAS SSD, anticipates decline of SATA SSD
Looking to go where the market appears to be heading, Micron has added a 6 Gbps Serial-Attached SCSI drive to its solid-state storage lineup with the release of the P410m solid-state drive. The 2.5-inch, 7 millimeter SAS drive is available in 100 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB capacities.
The P410m uses 25 nanometer multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash, and is the Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) version of Micron's P400m SATA interface solid-state drive (SSD). It is Micron's first SAS SSD and uses the company's XPERT performance and reliability technology, which includes on-board power-loss protection, and a redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN), the flash equivalent of a RAID.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Atlantis Computing handles virtual desktops' persistent data in RAM
Atlantis Computing this week launched a version of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software that speeds performance and reduces storage requirements for persistent virtual desktops.
Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 runs as a virtual machine (VM) inside local server memory, and creates and delivers persistent desktops within that server RAM. The ILIO virtual desktops are registered and created as network file system, or NFS, data stores for provisioning by Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenDesktop and VMware Inc.'s View desktop virtualization platforms.
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