Quality of service is the cornerstone feature of NexGen Storage so it seems only fitting that my first post here should be on the subject. Our team was working on a lab validation that allowed us to fully demonstrate the functionality this week. The results came out more clearly than I thought that they would and I just have to share them.
Many of our peers in the storage industry have made great advances in making shared storage performance more...
John Spiers recently sat down with Brian Garrett of ESG, to discuss the impetus of NexGen Storage. Watch, as John describes how lessons learned at LeftHand Networks helped shape product requirements in the NexGen Storage solution.
With EMC’s recent announcement of “Project Lightning” or VF Cache, they openly admit that solid state or flash implemented in disk drive form factors is an inferior technology to PCIe.
As we detailed in our previous posts, this is another proof point that solid state belongs on the PCIe bus and not in a disk drive form factor behind a storage controller. In addition to EMC’s recent announcement, Intel is leading a new standard called NVM Express, whose objective is to...
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a customer that was considering shared storage options for his first server virtualization undertaking. Ensuring adequate application performance was the key driving factor for their infrastructure strategy, so they had been implementing high performance servers connected to direct attached storage. But with 26 servers and more coming online this year, footprint, power, and cooling were becoming huge issues.
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