Update as of August 2020 – Datrium has recently been acquired by VMware and as a result, has announced the end-of-life for their DVX product line. Original post follows. Both Datrium and us differentiate from the rest of the storage appliance vendors in that both of us cache data to…
VirtuCache is software that improves the performance of Dell Compellent appliances without requiring you to upgrade the appliance or the SAN network. The performance improvement you will get from your Compellent appliance will rival an upgrade to an all-flash array. Compellent appliances were the workhorses of the enterprise storage market…
CEPH is a popular open source storage software. However its write latencies are high. VirtuCache caches CEPH volumes to in-host SSDs and by doing so reduces VM level latencies considerably.
VirtuCache is software that improves the performance of Equallogic appliances without requiring you to upgrade the appliance or the SAN network. The performance improvement you will get from your Equallogic appliance will rival an upgrade to an all-flash array. Equallogic appliances were the workhorses of the enterprise storage market a…
In case of FastCache or any storage appliance based caching, the SSD is more expensive than if the same SSD were bought retail. Also the SSD performs better in the host than in the storage appliance, since the SSD in the appliance is constrained by the network and controller. EMC…