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 SSD and Intel Cache Acceleration Software Improve I/O Performance
- Optimize Storage Performance through Intel® ISA-L and Intel® Enterprise Edition of Lustre
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 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.