Block Storage

Hybrid Storage: Automatic Drive Tiering and Thin Provisioning for Virtualization

The RAID team often gets questions from customers who want to move from traditional HDD storage solutions to an application more suitable for virtual environments.  The goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work loads.  At the same… [...]

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Improve Performance for Virtualized Server Workloads with ARI-100 Series

As business and IT leaders recognize the importance of making better use of valuable data, while maximizing IT investment, virtualized servers aren’t an option, but an imperative.  A relatively recent MIT Sloan study showed that “the median data growth rate (for organizations surveyed)… [...]

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Get Next Level SAN Storage with ARI-100

The excitement surrounding RAID Inc’s ARI-100 series is growing.  Why?  The ARI-100 is an advanced virtualization hybrid storage array, and, although that may be a mouthful, the beauty is in its simplicity. Data is migrated automatically, in real time. Standard Server-Based Applications Highlight Need… [...]

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Autonomic, Real Time Storage Tiering Produces Almost Immediate Gains

Many, if not most, applications today are I/O-constrained, which limits their performance when using traditional HDDs, whether directly attached or in virtualized area networks.  Caching helps improve performance, but fails to scale because it quickly reaches the point of diminishing return on… [...]

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What is a Hybrid Storage Array?

RAID, Inc. is offering answers to our most frequently asked questions via our blog.  We will compile them into an FAQ page soon.  Here’s the latest! What IS a Hybrid Storage Array? The simple definition of what a Hybrid array is is… [...]

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