Caching makes your RAID array go faster. But if you lose power your data can be corrupted. The old solution: a battery. The new and better solution: flash memory - with a twist. Disks are about 1 ...

the 74XX series makes use of Sun's Dtrace technology to offer storage analytics software no one else can match. As I've said elsewhere the storage product is faster, cheaper and more reliable - but ...

Researchers from the MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) led by professor Arvind have built a server cache system which, by relying on flash memory rather than ...

The NAND flash revolution continues apace, with a newly announced standards effort that will see Microsoft, Intel, and Dell team up to standardize parts of what Intel is calling "Turbo memory" and ...

One of my favorite features of vSphere 5.5 is the Flash Read Cache. This capability allows a VMDK (the VMware virtual disk format) to have a "slice" of higher performing SSD storage without putting ...

Researchers have developed a new system for data center caching that uses flash memory, the kind of memory used in most smartphones. Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database ...

In the datacenter, flash memory took off first as a caching layer between processors and their cache memories and main memory and the ridiculously slow disk drives that hang off the PCI-Express bus on ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to reduce data center energy usage. The team, from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory (CSAIL), ...