Flash storage provides significantly more performance (IOPS and throughput) and lower latency than hard disk-based media. Of course, flash comes with a higher price tag – up to 10 times more than ...

When solid-state drives first broke into the consumer market, there were those who predicted the new storage format would supplant hard drives in a matter of years thanks to radically improved ...

Dell this week provided new details and updated availability of its Dell Fluid Cache for SAN, a new technology that ties the flash storage of multiple servers into a pool of high-performance storage ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Clear your iPad cache regularly to boost speed and free storage.Safari, Chrome, and apps all store ...

Recently I discussed the importance of write caching in a VMware environment. A key issue when addressing write caching is protecting the cache until data is written to the hard disk. Although ...

The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based vendor has moved from the proprietary processor and controller used in its existing products to dual Xeon processors, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the ...

Clearing cache may something that a person will do for their computers and web browsers, with most having this feature available for the Android devices on their storage controls or recent apps.

“Tape is Dead, Disk is Tape, Flash is Disk, RAM Locality is King.” So said the late Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, in 2006. While tape never really died, a new wave of vendors have picked-up his ...