PCI Express SSD cards are the rage in IT departments looking for super fast, low latency application reads and writes. Why? PCIe Flash products take advantage of direct memory access over the PCIe bus, which is typically much faster than an external fibre channel or iSCSI connection. If you’re looking for maximum read and write performance in a single server, these solid state drive (SSD) solutions can fit the bill nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for September, 2011
Posted September 28th, 2011
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The Best of Both WorldsTHE KAMINARIO/FUSION-IO PARTNERSHIP GIVES YOU THE BEST OF PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY By Eyal Markovich |
Posted September 26th, 2011
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db file scattered readBy Eyal Markovich |
In a previous post, “db file sequential read” wait event, I have explained the db file sequential read wait which is the most common wait event in Oracle that is associated with I/O Wait). In this post I will describe the second most common event that I see when system suffer from I/O waits: db file scattered read. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted September 22nd, 2011
Bringing Choice to the Enterprise SSD Market Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SANBy Kaminario |
In his post, Bringing Choice to the Enterprise SSD Market Kaminario K2 All Solid-State SAN, George Crump, Storage Switzerland, he talks about how the Kaminario’s K2 has brought enterprise-class reliability to solid-state storage by designing a high performing, scalable and highly redundant architecture optimized for solid-state drive (SSD) SAN technology.
Posted September 21st, 2011
Enterprise Strategy Group Puts K2-H to the TestESG TESTS CONFIRM KAMINARIO CLAIMS. By Kaminario |
Coverage and feedback on the new Kaminario K2-H hybrid all solid-state SAN storage system has been fast and furious, and, from what we’ve seen, overwhelmingly positive. One of the items we’re particularly excited about is a recent Enterprise Strategy Group Lab report that validates what we’ve said about the K2-H (hybrid) performance, scalability and high availability.
Perhaps this quote from the report sums it up best: “With response times of under a millisecond and the ability to scale to more than 800,000 IOs per second, ESG Lab has confirmed that a K2 Hybrid solution that fits in a single rack is four to ten times faster than a traditional disk array consuming multiple racks full of power-hungry disk drives.”
Posted September 13th, 2011
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Kaminario and Fusion-IO The Perfect Storm for Enterprise-class All Solid-state StorageBy Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario |
According to Wikipedia, a perfect storm is “an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically.” In the case of Kaminario and Fusion-io, removing the barriers enterprises face in obtaining high performance and highly available SAN storage that they can afford, this is a perfect storm that is long overdue and will drastically revolutionize the way enterprise applications access critical data. Read the rest of the blog post…
Posted September 12th, 2011
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Kaminario and Fusion-io Collaborate to Trump Traditional Enterprise SSD Appliances with K2-H PlatformBy Marius Tudor, Senior Director of Strategic Partners and Channels, Fusion-io |
Kudos to Kaminario on the announcement of its next generation Kaminario K2 —the industry’s first all solid-state, high availability, SAN storage solution.
Today’s enterprises constantly struggle to keep data center rack space and OpEx in check, while delivering the high performance and lower latencies that applications require. Kaminario’s Fusion Powered solid-state FC SAN can help meet these previously conflicting requirements. Kaminario’s new architecture leverages Fusion’s high-performance, high-capacity memory tier to cut through bottlenecks and I/O storms with plenty of headroom for growth. Adding Fusion-io to the K2-H (hybrid) platform delivers shared storage at the same high-performance, low-latency benefits that we’ve been delivering to applications in the server for years. With its industry-leading price/application performance ratio, Kaminario’s got a winning formula. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted September 12th, 2011
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Kaminario K2: The Next Generation All Solid-state SAN StorageBy Gareth Taube, Vice President Marketing, Kaminario |
We are pleased to introduce our next generation Kaminario K2 family of all solid-state SAN storage systems. We are also excited to jointly announce, with Fusion-io, that the two companies have collaborated on the development of the new K2 and will bring the products to joint customer environments. This is great news for enterprises looking for high performance solid-state SAN storage solutions that will increase their application performance while lowering their costs and storage footprint. Our companies’ combined efforts reinforce the our commitment to remove the barriers enterprises currently face in obtaining high performance and highly available SAN storage at a price point that makes sense. Learn more about the next generation Kaminario K2 all solid-state SAN storage systems.
