Flash memory and storage
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News
19 Sep 2023
Infinidat offers all-flash within a hybrid array
Infinidat places a virtual all-flash array in its hybrid storage system while doubling the capacity of InfiniBox SSA and carving it up for easier consumption. Continue Reading
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22 Aug 2023
SSD, flash memory advances to see slow walk to market
New SSDs and CXL memory modules were on display at the 2023 Flash Memory Summit, but it might take market adjustments, new infrastructure and time to reap the benefits. Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2021
Fungible computational storage eyes composable use cases
Fungible's computational storage anchors a new offering for composable infrastructure. The Fungible Data Center license allows IT teams to consume resources on demand. Continue Reading
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News
24 Mar 2021
Pure Storage FlashBlade anchors B2B marketer's Azure cloud
Digital marketing specialist MultiView deployed a physical Pure Storage FlashBlade for production data, with the ability to consume all-flash storage as a virtual array in Azure. Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2021
Micron ends 3D XPoint development to focus on CXL products
Micron ends development of 3D XPoint and shifts its focus to CXL-enabled memory products, raising questions on the future supply source of Intel's Optane memory. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
Young Superwomen in Flash: What Is Their Situation?
The SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award winner discusses key issues for women in the storage industry and young women in the industry share their professional journeys and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Storage for AI in 2025 and How We Got There
AI applications will become more prevalent, and storage systems will have to be designed specially to meet their needs. Discover what storage for AI will look like in 2025. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
SuperWomen in Flash Panel
SuperWomen in Flash award winners discuss their professional roles and how they got there, opportunities in the storage industry for women, and future plans. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
FMS Special Presentation: UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering
In this short presentation, learn about The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, their two leading storage research centers and how your organization can get involved with them. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Performance at Scale for Model Training
An AI leader explores how AI and machine learning applications are different than traditional file-based applications, performance at scale of model training and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
SmartNICs: The Key to High-Speed Converged Networks
The SmartNIC can improve both throughput and scalability, and can provide a variety of functions, including cybersecurity, storage functions such as deduplication and mirroring, and more. This is a discussion exploring the topic. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Getting Serious About Containers and Flash Memory
The common use of containers to speed up distributed applications is transforming data centers all over, but what is the effect on storage? Explore how containers are being used today with flash-based storage systems. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
IT Brand Pulse Awards
IT professionals were surveyed across six categories of brand leadership. Here are the vendors that IT pros selected as innovation leaders for 2020. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Next Great Breakthrough in Flash Memory
Breakthroughs in flash memory keep occurring, and advances raise density and speed and decrease costs. What will be next with flash products? Will it be multiple levels beyond QLC? Here is a panel discussion among five leaders who dig into flash technology and its future. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
05 Mar 2021
SPI NAND Host-Side Error Correction
Error code correction is a key technology for maintaining reliability and extending memory longevity in SPI NAND flash. Compare integrated and host-based ECC by looking at three major areas. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Open Source Processors for Next-Generation Storage Controllers
Open source software tools are enabling a high level of innovation for storage controllers and data center architectures. Here is an introduction to storage controller SoC devices and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Using PM and Software-Defined Architectures to Optimize AI/ML Workloads
Explore how you can close AI, machine learning and analytics workload performance gaps using persistent memory and software-defined architectures. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Using Software to Improve the Performance and Endurance of High-Capacity SSDs
NAND flash technologies with more levels per cell deliver larger SSDs at much lower per-bit cost, but strength and performance can suffer. Here, you will find insights on how you can use machine learning and AI to enhance endurance of QLC. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Analyzing the Effects of Storage on AI Workloads
Wes Vaske, a principal storage solutions engineer, discusses some of the challenges and methods for overcoming unique challenges for architecting storage systems for AI workloads. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Using Computational Storage to Handle Big Data
Computational storage examples already in use illustrate ways to overcome bandwidth and data processing issues. Find out about other promising directions to explore for the future as well. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Hands-On Testing of Persistent Memory's Effects on Analytics Performance
What is persistent memory and how does it work? Look at the basics here, as well as a review of the Intel Optane implementation and some real-world persistent memory examples. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Flexible Computational Storage Solutions
Learn how you can simplify and provide hardware and software flexibility in computational storage architectures, the breadth of software options to unlock the benefits of computational storage and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Keys to Making Computational Storage Work in Your Applications
Computational storage applications require careful analysis, and the trade-offs will generally be increased cost vs. increased performance. Learn about real-world deployments from different companies in the market. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Scaling of New Memory Technologies Used for Persistent Memory
New memory technologies are gaining wide interest as persistent memory in storage systems. Here, you will find a review of different memory in the market and their characteristics, scaling challenges and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Flash Memory Technologies and Costs Through 2025
You will learn how flash memory technology and design changes are dramatically shifting who the cost leaders are and some of the challenges in the market. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
What Do Users Need to Know About Next-Generation Form Factors?
Learn about challenges organizations face in terms of storage performance and meeting application needs while juggling other responsibilities, including managing budgets and rack space. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Annual Update on Computational Storage
Computational storage allows data to reside close to processing power, thus allowing processing tasks to be in-line with data accesses. Stay on top of the IT architecture by reviewing this update. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Best Storage Strategies for AI and ML
Learn about what has changed with artificial intelligence (AI) from a storage perspective and AI trends to know, including some insights on the motivation behind computational storage and training. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Designing Powerful AI Systems with NVMe, PCIe and Logical Volumes
Explore some give-and-take and performance factors to consider when designing storage systems for AI and ML workloads. Technologies covered in this presentation include PCIe switching and fabrics, NVIDIA’s GPUDirect Storage and others. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Annual Flash Update -- The Pandemic's Impact
Will COVID-19 lead to a flash market collapse? Will 3D XPoint memory undermine SSDs? Will SSDs finally displace the HDD? Find out how the market is faring today and its outlook. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day Three
In this FMS on-demand content library, delve into storage trends and updates -- from computational storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning and more. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2021
Will QLC Flash Replace Hard Drives?
Will QLC flash replace hard drives everywhere? Are its capacities high enough and its cost low enough to make hard drives obsolete? This panel discussion explores key questions around QLC flash. Continue Reading
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News
03 Mar 2021
Pure Storage cloud deployments include dedicated bare metal
Pure Storage on Equinix Metal allows customers to build a Pure Storage cloud on dedicated all-flash tenants. Equinix is rolling it out in 18 U.S. and international markets. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2021
StorOne builds hybrid flash arrays based on Seagate hardware
StorOne S1 flash management stack is tuned for optimal run on Seagate Exos Application Platform 5U servers. Four configurations are available that mix Seagate disk and SSDs. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Feb 2021
COVID-19 research spurs IHME to 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo storage
Seattle's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation opts for 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo hybrid storage appliances to handle massive data sets generated through COVID-19 research. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
Accelerating Flash for a Competitive Edge in the Cloud and Beyond
Explore what changes to NAND SSD data placement and management mean for real-life apps focusing on the most popular NoSQL databases which are largely used in the cloud, the different configurations, and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Using the New EDSFF (E3) SSDs Effectively
The new EDSFF form factors allow higher system density and more effective forms for high-performance racks. Here is an overview of the specifications and status of EDSFF E3.x and insights on effective use. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Where the New High-Speed Interfaces Fit and How They Work Together
This panel discussion explores the new CXL and Gen-Z interfaces that allow for the ultra-high-speed connection of all kinds of new technologies, including accelerators, coprocessors, memories and other devices. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
The Role of Flash in Enterprise Data Protection
IDC research director Phil Goodwin delves into how customers are using flash to meet evolving data protection requirements, the business benefits this brings to the table and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Top Five Ways Ethernet SSDs Can Improve Storage Solutions
Ethernet-attached SSDs offer a simple way to boost storage performance and decrease cost. This panel discussion explores ways to connect SSDs to a network. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Solid-State Storage Developments
IDC's Jeff Janukowicz explores solid-state storage. Dive into recent SSD developments, how SSDs will continue to reshape the enterprise landscape and five things you should know about enterprise solid-state storage. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Speed Dating With PM Application Developers
Here are three use cases highlighting the motivation for using persistent memory and the delivered results. Learn about how a memory startup, a social networking company and a cloud and enterprise software provider all use persistent memory. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Storage Processors Accelerate Database Operations
Storage processors with industry-standard SSDs can add value for many data-intensive applications. Here is a look at how you can use storage processors to speed up data workload. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Technical and Market Directions for Persistent Memory
Learn how persistent memory is evolving, how it is maximizing performance in next generation applications, and explore market growth projections. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
NVMe at Scale: A Radical New Approach to Improve Performance and Utilization
Here is your introduction on how apps can transform by making the right infrastructure choices that enable NVMe to scale, with minimum limitations, HPC and next-gen HCI use cases and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Relevant New Storage Technologies for Digitally Transforming Enterprises
Eric Burgener, research VP in the infrastructure systems group at IDC, explores digital transformation trends from the storage perspective and new storage technologies involved in today's digital transformation movement. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Software and Services Define Future Infrastructure Consumption
Here is a look at public cloud growth, some of the trends behind the increasing demand for storage performance from public cloud, use cases, what that means for partners in this ecosystem and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Optimizing SSD Performance With AI and Real-World Workloads
Here is a real-world use of AI methods on advanced XL-flash SSDs in which a recurrent neural network serves as the underlying model and produces substantial performance improvements. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
IDC Real-World Applications and Solutions for Persistent Memory
Progress in using persistent memory has been quite slow because of the lack of standards, suitable interfaces and systems software. Here is a look at persistent memory in the real world. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Introduction to Enterprise/Cloud Storage
Looking for a recap of the flash market over the years? You will find it here as well as some insights on the impact of newer technologies -- such as NVMe over Fabrics -- on system architectures. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
How Can We Solve the Problems Holding Up Persistent Memory Adoption?
Many reasons have stopped persistent memory from gaining wider usage. Here is a look at some of the key issues and how you can solve them. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
How Zoned Namespaces Improve SSD Lifetime, Throughput and Latency
You will find an introduction to the NVMe ZNS Command Set. Learn about the benefits (lifetime, throughput, and latency) of ZNS SSDs using real-world workloads and comparing it to typical SSDs. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
IDC Closing Remarks
Here, you will find final commentary from IDC's Eric Burgener about solid-state technologies and how you might consider using those in your own data center and as you build your infrastructure. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Gen-Z: An Ultra-High-Speed Interface for System-to-System Communication
Kurtis Bowman, president of the Gen-Z Consortium, provides an overview of the Gen-Z fabric, including bandwidth, security and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
CXL: A Basic Tutorial
Here is a brief introduction to Compute Express Link (CXL). This is a new high-speed CPU interconnect that enables a high-speed, efficient performance between the CPU and platform enhancements and workload accelerators. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
Evolution of SSD Storage in Public Cloud
IDC analyst Andrew Smith explores flash-based services in the cloud. Review key offerings and how cloud providers are delivering services to the market and using flash and SSD to bring about those services. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Flash in the Era of Digital Infrastructure: What CIOs Need to Know
Explore the changing nature of applications and workloads, the shift from hyper-converged to composable and disaggregated infrastructure, edge computing and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
Virtual FMS Show Awards
The 13th annual Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Awards winners were presented by Flash Memory Summit's emcee Jay Kramer and TechTarget Group Publisher Jillian Coffin. Get to know the 2020 winners. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Annual Update on Persistent Memory
Explore some of the new developments happening within the persistent memory market, the best fit applications, use cases for persistent memory and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Cloud Workloads Driving Flash Adoption
Learn which workloads are impacting flash adoption and why, current trends, workload-related attributes to know about, what IDC means by cloud infrastructure and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Optimizing NVMe-oF Storage With EBOFs & Open Source Software
Data-driven apps run faster on multi-server systems when the available flash storage is networked to maximize usage, but one problem is how to network standard NVMe drives at fair costs while achieving high performance. NVMe over Fabrics can help. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Software-Enabled Flash for Hyperscale Data Centers
Software-enabled flash is a technology that redefines digital storage in a new way. Here you will find an introduction to software-enabled flash and its key capabilities. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award
The SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award honors women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the flash memory technology ecosystem. Here is a look at the 2020 winners. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
The New Face of High-Speed Interfaces
CXL is a CPU-to-device interconnect protocol that targets high-performance workloads. Here, you will find an introduction to the CXL specification. Explore the latest developments, use cases and more. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Evolution of Ethernet-Attached NVMe-oF Devices and Platforms
As NVMe-oF ecosystem continues to mature, storage systems now have design choices for the type of external and internal fabrics to use, as well as the various attach points. Learn about Ethernet-attached storage, specifically NVMe over Fabrics devices and platforms, and what is required for a successful deployment. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Benefits of Native NVMe-oF SSDs
Deploying NVMe-oF natively at the SSD level is an approach that can yield greater scalability, performance, reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) while also helping to contain compute and memory investment costs. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
23 Feb 2021
Making NVMe Drives Handle Everything from Archiving to QoS
Learn how the existing ZNS architecture for NVMe drives can be suited for better host data placement and scheduling than traditional block I/O and tradeoffs. Javier Gonzalez also briefly touches on the Zone Random Write Area concept. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Monitoring the Health of NVMe SSDs
Many capabilities have been built into NVMe technology, including enhancing error reporting, logging, management, debug, and telemetry. Here are insights on how you can manage the status and health of NVMe SSDs (like notifying users when an SSD failure occurs). Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Optimizing NVMe Drives for Your Applications
Ensure higher endurance and performance of your NVMe drives by incorporating Software Log Structured Array, which through efficient garbage collection and remediation reduces write amplification. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions from Day Two
TechTarget is hosting the Flash Memory Summit 2020 on-demand content library. Here, you can review presentations from day two of the conference and look at the Best of Show and SuperWomen in Flash Leadership award winners. Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2021
Pure Storage nudges all-flash toward hybrid workloads
Pure Storage all-flash revolves around unified fast file and object storage to consolidate local and cloud-based application data on a single high-performance flash platform. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Feb 2021
These 5 IT buzzwords for 2021 reflect data storage priorities
As a mature IT discipline, the pace of change in storage has slowed, but there is still plenty of buzz about underlying technologies you'll need to know about in 2021. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
3D XPoint Optane Memory Markets: Bits, Revenue, Costs
Here you will find a review of some 3D XPoint Optane products, technology, competition, costs, a detailed update on wafer capacity, bit growth and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Big Memory for 3D Animation and Visual Effects
Learn about the big memory impact on animation. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
How Storage Professionals Should Respond to COVID-19
TechTarget presents 2020 research on the impact of COVID-19 on storage spending and provides guidelines for coping with rapid change and massive unpredictability. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Accelerating Performance With NVMe-oF
Can you accelerate your performance with NVMe-oF? George Crump, former storage industry analyst, and CMO at StorOne, explores the pros and cons of NVMe-oF to help you determine if your data center is ready for it. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
MRAM: Latest High-Performance Applications
This is a discussion around MRAM and how the technology can benefit your organization. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
NVMe Market Research
NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics is an emerging market. What progress has been made over the last five years and where is the market heading? This analysis helps answer these questions. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
SSD Reliability and Debug at Scale
IT pros at Facebook discuss flash reliability at scale in the Facebook infrastructure and how they are solving the problems they have run into. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Bringing NVMe/TCP Up to Speed
Stay up to date on the recent enhancements made to improve NVMe/TCP performance. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Storage Environments With NVMe-oF Technology
Chuck Piercey, director of product management at Kioxia America, explores how the NVMe-oF protocol enables a new deployment of storage called "desegregation," which enhances Kubernetes deployment. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Challenges in Hyperscale: What Hyperscalers Care About
Here are some insights around potential problems with deploying in hyperscale and what hyperscalers find valuable. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Managing Data Growth in the Zettabyte Era
Terabytes have given way to petabytes and now to zettabytes. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and analytics are all affecting the massive growth of data. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
3D XPoint in 2025 and How We Got There
3D XPoint has become known as a flash competitor that has actual products, use cases and support. Analysts expect markets for 3D XPoint to rise steadily. Here is a look at the market. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Handling Slow Disks in Heterogeneous SSD Deployments
You'll learn about differences between some disk performance specifics and how these performance variations can be managed. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
RRAM: Now Used in IoT, AI and Data Center Storage
This is an update on resistive RAM memory. Learn about features, advantages, latest developments, and the operation and construction of resistive RAM memory devices. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
The State of NVMe Interoperability
Here is an outline of the latest NVMe technologies and new standardization initiatives. You will learn about some resources currently available to help enable interop, and more. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Hyperscale Storage in 2025 and How We Got There
Hyperscale storage in 2025 is likely to take up an ever-increasing percentage of the overall storage market. Here is a look at where the market is heading and how we got here. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day One
Check out what happened during the first day of the Flash Memory Summit virtual conference. From storage technology trends and challenges to what IT pros should expect to see happen in the industry in years to come. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
NVMe Technology in the Real World
Explore some real-world capabilities of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe-oF 1.1, learn from HPE on how NVMe over Fabrics is evolving to redefine next generation SAN, and more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Annual Update on New Memory Technologies
Review attributes of various new memory technologies, emerged technologies and what should be the focus for the data center. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Big Memory Software
Take a look at software-defined memory, combining persistent memory and DRAM. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Using 3D XPoint Persistent Memory Effectively
There is a lot of excitement around 3D XPoint, but there are some hidden potholes that can interrupt the most promising efforts. Designing around these potholes is a must. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
NVMe in Cloud Applications
Large installations such as Facebook, Mellanox, Western Digital, and Microsoft choose NVMe technology for their cloud storage. Learn about NVMe technology at scale, deploying NVMe flash on Facebook, and much more. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Using Persistent Memory to Accelerate Tweet Search
As an option to improve per-node throughput, Twitter sought to test the storage of tweet data in persistent memory instead of SSDs. Discover how they integrated the technology and results they saw. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
An Introduction to the Storage Networking Industry Association
Here, you will find a brief overview of what the organization is, how they are serving the storage community and an update on what they have been up to in the last year. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Preview of NVMe 2.0: Impacts for the Data Center
NVMe has rapidly evolved from a disruptive technology to a core element in storage architectures. Review where NVMe was last year and preview the 2.0 specification release. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
Annual Update on Enterprise Storage
This presentation takes a look at the latest developments in enterprise storage. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Enterprise Storage Today
What do vendors and end users alike need to know about flash memory today? Dive into what industry experts have noticed about the technology this past year and ten key things that you should know now about flash. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
04 Feb 2021
TechTarget Storage Media: What Sets Us Apart
Jillian Coffin, VP of Market & Digital Strategy at TechTarget, provides an overview of our online global storage communities, our content and audience data around evolving buying dynamics. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Implementing Big, Fast Persistent Memory
Persistent memory software architect Steve Scargall explains how it is possible to bridge the gaps between memory and storage. Continue Reading
