Storage Switzerland Says AutoCache Creates the Ideal Server-Side Solution to...
Following yesterday’s launch of AutoCache1.1, Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump published a blog post titled: Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter AutoCache 1.1 Product Analysis. In it,...
View ArticleTop VMware and Virtualization Blogger Comments on the new AutoCache
Cormac Hogan was recently named among the top VMware and virtualization bloggers in a vSphere-Land poll. We have been able to get to know him a bit through our participation in various VMUG events and...
View ArticleFlash in the enterprise: The good, the bad, and the ugly
We have been watching the adoption of Flash in the enterprise for over 10 years now, and we are happy to see that so much progress has been made. But why did it take so long? One reason might be the...
View ArticleSave the Date, July 26th for Sysadmin Day and Webinar
Here at Proximal Data we love sysadmins because no one understands our value better than you do. As such, we are hugely proud to support the 14th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day on July...
View ArticleSLC versus MLC for Caching
As SSD caching infiltrates the enterprise at multiple layers, debates over how best to utilize these new technologies are taking place. Two of the more prominent debates focus on write cache versus...
View ArticleThe Technical Implications of Write-Back Cache
Debates about the risks of write-back caching have been around for decades. Write-back caches have been employed using many different methodologies in an attempt to work around the issues, but with...
View ArticleMore Considerations of Write-Back Caching – Handling Bursty Workloads and the...
The knock on host-based read caches that use Flash devices is that they don’t accelerate write-dominated workloads. The assumption is that host-based write-back caches solve both read and write...
View Article“The Dirty Secrets of Host-Based Write-Back Caching”
The market is buzzing over host-based caching. Startups are flooding this niche, and write-back caching in the host is the focus of a great deal of that hype. At first blush, write-back caching is very...
View ArticleHypervisor-based Caching and PCIe Flash Integrated
Some combinations, when they happen, are so obvious that you can only ask, “Why didn’t they do this sooner?” That is the case with the coming together of Proximal Data’s AutoCache hypervisor-based...
View ArticleHypervisor-Based Caching Comes of Age with vFRC
How much time do you want to spend worrying about your storage? The answer for everyone is “none”; as that’s an unreachable goal, “less than I do now” is the next best thing. Nobody – except possibly...
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