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Storwize Inc. is the only provider of online data compression
solutions that dramatically boost storage space on network storage environments.
Storwize appliances are installed between the organization's storage arrays and
their network. Designed to work with any storage array it is connected to, the
Storwize appliance typically provides organizations with 2-5X additional
capacity with associated savings in capital, operational, maintenance and
management resources. The company recently received funding from Sequoia
Capital, one of the largest and most influential venture capital firms. Storwize
solutions have been shipped to customer sites worldwide and successfully tested
for interoperability with leading storage vendors such as EMC and NetApp.
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Storwize
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.
Understanding
the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
process... |
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...not made any easier when
market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1!
Why is that? ...read
the article | | | |
the Problem with
Write IOPS
the "play it again Sam" syndrome |
Editor:- Flash SSD "random
write IOPS" are now similar to "read IOPS" in many of the
fastest SSDs.
So
why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?
And
why are users still buying
RAM SSDs which cost
9x more than SLC? - even when the IOPS specs look similar. |
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This article tells you
why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs
with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely
differently. ...read
the article | | | |
