A disk or memory cache that supports the caching of writing. Data written by the CPU to memory or to disk is also written into the cache. Write performance is not improved with this method. However, ...

I attended my favorite storage conference last week in Silicon Valley, File And Storage Technology (FAST). This is the foremost gathering of corporate and academic researchers and practitioners in the ...

With the introduction of the solid-state Flash drive, performance came to the forefront for data storage technologies. Prior to that, software developers and server administrators needed to devise ...