Centralized storage caching

Networking Technology Update This newsletter is sponsored by Nevis Inside the industry's largest public NAC test Get an independent review of Cisco's CNAC and the Trusted Computing Group's TNC network access control frameworks via Network World's latest Editorial Briefing "Implementing NAC." Get the real scoop and go inside the industry's largest public test of available NAC products. Networking Technology Update, 06/04/07 Centralized storage caching By Gary Orenstein A new approach to storage caching that centralizes the resource and uses Ethernet, IP and Network File System can serve RAM-cached files 10 to 50 times faster than mechanical disk-based approaches. VoIP: Lessons from Early Adopters Experts say VoIP isn't a magic wand that will solve all of an organization's communications challenges right out of the box. Learn why VoIP may not produce expected savings and productivity gains, and other lessons from early adopters. Click Here to Watch Delivering high-speed, high-capacity caching as a shared network resource for I/O-intensive requests means data centers can reduce the need to overprovision storage and guarantee QoS for all NFS-based application servers and storage systems. The need for centralized caching is due, in part, to the fact that it is hard to coherently distribute memory across servers or storage for end-node caching. Typically memory is replicated across devices to balance performance, and each server or storage system maintains a unique memory pool. But mixed workloads can result in underutilized resources, and servers and storage devices have a finite memory capacity so the need to increase overall memory requires adding systems, and that may result in wasted CPU or storage capacity For more on this story, please click here.

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