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RNA Networks says memory virtualization to be major trend

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By Deni Connor - S... on Wed, 12/16/09 - 10:49am.

RNA Networks on Tuesday announced its views of the top three trends in memory virtualization in 2010. Since memory utilization is a major factor in application performance, the ability to virtualize memory across multiple machines is advantageous. First, local memory is much faster than storage memory, including solid state drives, because of its application awareness, so as applications run short on memory, a large bottleneck occurs. Second, increases in data requirements outstrip the memory of a single server, even with advances in DRAM density. The ability to share memory across a network of processors provides a cost-effective answer. Third, the ability to virtualize memory is a critical factor in cloud computing, allowing service providers to efficiently scale processing requirements across a virtual memory pool.

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Deni Connor

Deni Connor is the principal of Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) which was founded in 2007. Deni is a well-known Servers expert, who was previously a reporter for IDG’s Network World. In addition, Connor worked in marketing and editorial positions for Novell, IBM, Control Data, Radix International, Thomas-Conrad and Networking Solutions magazine. SSG-NOW is located in Austin, Texas.

Deni is a regular contributor in both print and online for Network World and authors NWW’s twice-weekly Storage News Alert Newsletter with a circulation of over 26,000 subscribers.

In a previous and long ago life, Connor is known as a Novell NetWare expert and co-author of IDG's NetWare for Dummies and several other books on networking the NetWare way.

 

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