Items Tagged: IO
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Think Technology: Data Center Infrastructure Unlocking I/O: Clearing The Path To The Cloud
Pages 54-57: Interview with Jeff Byrne and Jeff Boles, Senior Analysts at Taneja Group. Although server and storage virtualization are key enabling technologies for delivering Data Center Infrastructure on-demand and on-tap, we believe the achievement of the Cloud vision of true flexibility and agility is still a distant dream in most environments today. We believe virtual machine environments place unique demands on network infrastructure. Although virtual machines can simplify the physical server infrastructure, they add complexity to the LAN and SAN fabrics within the data center. We believe most issues preventing data centers from achieving their Cloud vision today center on the network, and more specifically at the interfaces between the server and the network and storage – a.k.a the I/O. In this white paper focused on I/O, we highlight some innovative and emerging solutions to these problems and the companies leading efforts to pioneer and evangelize these solutions.
- Premiered: 02/10/11
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: ThinkEquity LLC
The Kaminario K2: Transforming the Costs and Capabilities of Storage Performance
In this product profile, we’ll take a look at what we think is required to deliver a true enterprise-class storage foundation for improving application performance, and one vendor's distinctly different approach to delivering a high performance storage solution. That solution - the Kaminario K2 – delivers a compelling approach for those enterprises in need of faster storage for greater application performance.
Taneja Group Research: The Costs of Performance
What's an IO worth to you? Is it worth more than a gigabyte? Less? That's a hard question for many IT and business professionals to begin to consider; yet we often see it bandied about. It certainly has merit, it just isn't easily understood.
- Premiered: 04/18/11
- Author: Jeff Boles
- Published: EnterpriseStorageForum.com
The Cost of Performance
What’s an IO worth to you? Is it worth more than a gigabyte? Less? That’s a hard question for many IT and business professionals to begin to consider; yet we often see it bandied about. It certainly has merit, it just isn’t easily understood. In this industry article, Taneja Group takes a look at how big the cost of performance is, and with that understanding in mind, we’ll look at two examples of new solutions and what they suggest is a changing way to get cost-effective performance inside the data center walls.
I/O: The next frontier
Processors get faster, networking tech takes it up a notch and bus designs keep up the pace, but they may all be dragged down if we can’t find a fix for slow I/O performance. There’s no question I/O is the next frontier the computer industry must conquer. We’ve met the compute challenge reaffirming Moore’s Law over and over again as the industry doubles processing power every 12 months to 18 months. Memory speeds have also kept pace with the CPU, so processors and RAM can feed each other at similar speeds. In the realm of networking, the technologies seem to enjoy a big kick every three years to five years. With 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) in the volume implementation stage and 40 Gig parts already available, we’re swimming in bandwidth.
- Premiered: 09/21/11
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: SearchStorage.com
I/O performance in need of a fix
What you’ll learn in this tip: The computer industry has overcome a multitude of technological challenges in the past several years. Networking and memory speeds have increased, processors have gotten faster and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) has allowed for a massive increase in bandwidth. However none of these advances will remain beneficial if I/O performance doesn’t improve. Author Arun Taneja outlines the basics of I/O and explains why critical applications are stalled due to I/O performance issues. There are many supposed keys to this decades old issue -- while some turn to Flash, Flash memory or NAND flash memory chips, others look to solid-state and solid-state drive (SSD) controllers.
- Premiered: 11/18/11
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: SearchStorage.com