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Good post from George Crump on TLC.. not the band ! The Triple Level Cell There is a third type of Flash NAND that does not get much attention, at least from the enterprise; Triple Level Cell (TLC) Flash. Similar to how Multi-Level Cell (MLC) writes two bits per cell instead of the single bit [...]

It is clear the world is getting smarter. Billions of devices are connecting people and businesses. These new devices, and the transactions they enable, are generating vast amounts of data which needs to be stored, copied, analyzed, classified and audited, sometimes for decades. Industry estimates show that data storage requirements are growing 20% to 40% [...]

Post by Luca Dell’Oca (grazie !) In some previous articles I described Fusion-IO technology and how to install on of their card in a ESXi server. In this post, as many of you were waiting for, it’s time to run some performance tests and see what is able to do this product. For my tests I [...]

Pixar’s Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman recount how the files for Toy Story 2 were almost lost due to an accidental Linux command and bad backup. It’s probably a little over-dramatized from what actually happened, but is a good reminder to back up your important files!

Post by John Wright (thank you) The PowerVM Virtualization Performance Advisor diagnoses performance issues within PowerVM partitions. The tool was developed by the IBM Power Systems Virtualization Performance team and is intended to help customers, developers, testers, performance analysts, field engineers and anyone else interested in diagnosing and addressing performance issues within the PowerVM partitions. [...]

Post by George Crump (thank you) Flash-based Solid State Devices (SSD) are more than just a collection of memory cards. They’re also not created equally. Components like the controller, backplane, and internal interconnect all are important differentiators when accessing Flash-based storage solutions. As these products have made their way into the enterprise a component that [...]

Post by Gary Orenstein (thank you) Flash is a hot topic, but what is the value of flash in the data centre? Is the price such that adoption in the enterprise will continue at a rapid pace? Or is it still a niche offering, only to be used in edge cases where extreme performance is [...]

CERN will have a massive data increase this year. Here the people on the inside tells us how they will deal with it.