New in our Portfolio: HGST ActiveScale Systems

Gepost op 21 september 2017 door Chip ICT b.v.

As official HGST Enterprise partner, Chip ICT has adopted the ActiveScale™ portfolio.

ActiveScale P100

ActiveScale Cloud Management

ActiveScale X100

Modular Object Storage System Scaling Up From 720TB To Over 19PB, So You Can Keep Up With Data Growth, Storage Management at Petabyte Scale, And Deliver On Business Objectives

Monitoring And Storage Analytics For ActiveScale Systems Via A Cloud Interface Lets You Get Ahead of Events Before They Become Problems

Integrated Object Storage System Scaling From 840TB To Over 52PB, Delivering Outstanding Data Consistency, Availability, And Durability For Building World-Class Cloud Infrastructure

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NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express™ over Fabrics)

Gepost op 12 september 2017 door Chip ICT b.v.

NVM Express (NVMe™) – Non-Volatile Memory Express is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs. Designed to take advantage of the unique properties of pipeline-rich, random access, memory-based storage, NVMe reduces latency and provide faster CPU to data storage device performance.

Itis a new and innovative method of accessing storage media and has been capturing the imagination of data center professionals worldwide. NVMe is an alternative to the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) standard for connecting and transferring data between a host and a peripheral target storage device or system. SCSI became a standard in 1986, when hard disk drives (HDDs) and tape were the primary storage media. NVMe is designed for use with faster media, such as solid-state drives (SSDs) and post-flash memory-based technologies. NVMe provides a streamlined register interface and command set to reduce the I/O stack’s CPU overhead by directly accessing the PCIe bus. Benefits of NVMe-based storage drives include lower latency, deep parallelism and higher performance.

What is NVME over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™)?

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) enables the use of alternate transports to PCIe to extend the distance over which an NVMe host device and an NVMe storage drive or subsystem can connect. NVMe-oF™ defines a common architecture that supports a range of storage networking fabrics for NVMe block storage protocol over a storage networking fabric. This includes enabling a front-side interface into storage systems, scaling out to large numbers of NVMe devices and extending the distance within a datacenter over which NVMe devices and NVMe subsystems can be accessed.

NVMe-oF™ is designed to extend NVMe onto fabrics such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand.

Intel® Cache Acceleration Software

Gepost op 17 juli 2017 door Chip ICT b.v.

Improve Application Performance with Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS)

Today’s data centers are held back by storage I/O that cannot keep up with ever-increasing demand, preventing systems from reaching their full performance potential. Traditional solutions, such as increasing storage, servers, or memory, add huge expense and complexity.

Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS), combined with high-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs), increases data center performance via intelligent caching rather than extreme spending. Intel® CAS interoperates with server memory to create a multilevel cache that optimizes the use of system memory and automatically determines the best cache level for active data, allowing applications to perform even faster than running fully on flash/SSDs.1