Solid-state (SSD) is disrupting the storage industry and as a result all storage vendors, including NexGen, are scrambling to get ahead of the curve. Everyone has a different perspective on how to take advantage of the change. I wrote about how vendors are using SSD for caching in my previous post. Now let us focus on how most vendors are...
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By Chris McCall | Categories: The Storage Industry, Technologies
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There’s a lot of discussion in the storage industry around how to implement solid-state or flash storage. Most of the debate centers on whether it should be as a tier of storage or as a cache. So what’s the difference?
A tier of storage can be generally summed up as a type of storage defined by price, performance, capacity, availability or function that does not require data to be stored elsewhere for it to work properly.
Cache, according to...
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