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• IBM lines up all-flash storage to help power cognitive computing

  IBM is expanding its flash storage lineup to power cloud data centers that carry out so-called cognitive computing.

• MIT researchers resort to flash for Big Data storage

  An MIT research team next month will show off a networked system of flash storage devices they say beats relying on DRAM and networked hard disks to handle Big Data demands.

• Getting the most out of flash storage

  As powerful and beneficial as flash storage can be, many organizations are overspending on capacity they don't need, deploying flash in the wrong places, and inefficiently spending on flash applications that are not appropriate for their real business objectives.

• Flash Storage Offers Fast Path to VDI, Better App Performance

  As traditional storage environments hinder application performance and increase latency, enterprises are turning to flash storage to improve performance and implement virtual desktop infrastructure. More widespread use of flash storage, though, may require vendors to be flexible with their pricing.

• Where to deploy flash-based SSD caching to optimize application acceleration

  Enhancements to server and storage technology created an I/O performance gap in the enterprise storage network that has since been addressed by SSD-based caches and PCIe-based flash cards, but there are different approaches to deploying SSDs. This article compares SSD caching approaches and suggests a new approach that overcomes the individual drawbacks of each approach while combining their relative advantages.

• SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price

  As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.

• Flash storage should be among top data center priorities: Gartner

  Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.

• IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

• Flash can eliminate imbalance between server and storage performance

  The rise of flash memory in the enterprise data center will help eliminate a fundamental imbalance between the performance of servers and storage, Sun storage chief John Fowler told attendees at Storage Networking World.