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Articles for the keywords: flash
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26 May 2013
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Storage optimization: Flash finds some government niches [31112]
FCW, May 13th, 2013
"Storage performance can spell the difference between a successful technology venture and one that brings systems to a standstill. Storage optimization tools, including software-based accelerators, aim to reduce or eliminate that bottleneck,"
writes John Moore in "FCW".
"Another approach that promises better storage performance is flash technology, which is familiar to anyone who has ever used a USB thumb drive. In the enterprise context, flash technology takes the form of cards that plug into servers or solid-state drives housed in storage arrays..."
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25 May 2013
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How to go Physical to Virtual with Oracle Solaris Zones using Enterprise Manager Ops Center [31101]
By Rodney Lindner
Rodney Lindner writes, "Many customers have large collections of physical Solaris 8, 9 and 10 servers in their datacenters and they are wondering how they are going to virtualize them. This leads to a commonly asked question. Can Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12C be used to P2V (Physical to Virtual) my old servers? Ops Center does not have a single button P2V capability, but it is possible for Ops Center to deploy physical servers, LDOMs and branded zones based on flash archives(flars) that have been taken of your existing physical servers. Ops Center achieves P2V by deploying flars and leveraging its patching and automation capabilities, to make the P2V process consistent, repeatable and as cost effective as possible.
As with any virtualization project, there will be a number of things that will need to be updated as you move from a physical to a virtual environment. It is a common misconception that you can virtualize a system and change nothing about it. There are always a few things that have to be changed on an OS or process level to make it compatible with the virtualized environment. As a best practice, there are many more things that should be updated, re-allocated and redesigned as part of a virtualization project but that is a subject for another blog.
In this blog, we will be covering migrating physical servers to Oracle Solaris Zones..."
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20 May 2013
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Will flash or disk drives own the future of data storage? [31184]
VentureBeat, May 20th, 2013
"'Flash or disk?' That question whether the future of data storage would be defined by flash memory or hard drives has been a looming battle in the storage industry for the last several years.
Hard drives, of course, remain the heart of the storage industry. Manufacturers shipped 524 million disk drives in 2012, according to iSuppli, more than ten times the 39 million flash drives that were shipped in the same period. Worldwide manufacturing capacity for drives at the end of 2012 came to around 125,000 petabytes per quarter, compared to around 10,000 petabytes per quarter for flash. By volume, hard drives are tough to beat.
But look at the growth rates, say flash advocates. Shipments will grow from 39 million units in 2012 to 83 million units in 2013. By 2016, 239 million flash drives will be shipping annually, propelled by sales of tablets, smartphones, and notebooks..."
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16 May 2013
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The Unknown Risk of SSD Mapping Tables [31091]
Storage Switzerland, May 16th, 2013
"Solid State Disks (SSD) and Flash Appliances use mapping tables to track where data is stored on the flash device. These tables play a similar role to iNode or File Allocation Tables (FAT) and if they get corrupted or lost, they need to be rebuilt. While faster than hard disk systems, the rebuild process on large flash appliances can take hours which makes it especially problematic for the performance sensitive environments that solid state solutions are typically deployed into..."
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16 May 2013
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Storage optimization: Flash finds some government niches [31096]
FCW, May 13th, 2013
"Storage performance can spell the difference between a successful technology venture and one that brings systems to a standstill. Storage optimization tools, including software-based accelerators, aim to reduce or eliminate that bottleneck.
Another approach that promises better storage performance is flash technology, which is familiar to anyone who has ever used a USB thumb drive. In the enterprise context, flash technology takes the form of cards that plug into servers or solid-state drives housed in storage arrays..."
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