Flash storage provides significantly more performance (IOPS and throughput) and lower latency than hard disk-based media. Of course, flash comes with a higher price tag – up to 10 times more than ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based vendor has moved from the proprietary processor and controller used in its existing products to dual Xeon processors, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the ...

“Tape is Dead, Disk is Tape, Flash is Disk, RAM Locality is King.” So said the late Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, in 2006. While tape never really died, a new wave of vendors have picked-up his ...