Software Defined Storage is transforming the Storage ecosystem through software, by enabling dynamic, policy-driven storage resource management for the Software Defined Data Center

Overview

Software Defined Storage (SDS) is the framework for delivery of a scalable, cost-effective storage solution to serve the needs of tomorrow’s Data Center. While standards are still evolving, it is a key component of a Software Defined Infrastructure. Learn how Intel storage devices, software and software libraries can help improve performance in your SDS solution.

How Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) and Intel Cache Acceleration Software improve I/O Performance

The Intel Solid-State Drive Data Center Family modernizes storage with high endurance and extreme performance SSDs. Learn how SSDs support a variety of virtualized datacenter workloads.

Benefits of Intel® Enterprise class SSD: What a developer should know about Intel Enterprise Class Solid-State Drives (SSD), including usage models, workload characterization, and how performance can be maximized.

Intel® Cache Acceleration Software: A Primer: an overview of Intel CAS, its implementation, and its benefits to particular environments.

See how Intel SSDs showed improved performance in this Case Study with Cloudera

See more information about SSD solutions at http://www.intel.com/storage

Optimize Storage Performance

Intel provides Software Libraries and an Enterprise-class file serving solution to maximize storage throughput on Intel® Xeon® processor and Intel® Atom® processor families.

Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

Optimizing Storage Solutions Using the Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library: Intel® Intelligent Storage Library (Intel® ISA-L) provides the tools to help accelerate and optimize storage on Intel® architecture (IA). Library functions support data recoverability, integrity, and security, and compression mechanisms.

Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (Intel® ISA-L) Performance Under a Virtual Machine: This tutorial explains how to set up a KVM virtual machine with the ISA Intel® Intelligent Storage Library (Intel® ISA-L) to measure the performance of ISA-L library functions.

Case Study: Intel and Qihoo 360 Internet Portal Datacenter - Big Data Storage Optimization Case Study: The adoption of cloud computing creates many challenges and opportunities in big data management and storage. This case study describes a collaboration between Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.* and Intel to optimize the storage infrastructure in Qihoo’s Internet Portal Datacenter (IPDC). The solution that was chosen reduced the required storage space by almost two-thirds and increased performance by more than 10x.

Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software

An Overview of the Storage Plugin for Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software: The Lustre* file system was created to provide sustained storage performance and stability on a large scale for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Intel's enhanced version of Lustre*, known as Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre*, enables fully parallel I/O throughput across clients, servers, and storage devices.

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