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Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership

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Jan 21st, 2025 | 9 min read

Database Performance: Impact of Storage Limitations

TLDR: Storage and storage limitations have a fundamental impact on database performance, with access latency creating a hard physical limitation on IOPS, queries per second (QPS), and transactions per

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Jan 08th, 2025 | 15 min read

NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage

TLDR: In a direct comparison of NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI, we see that NVMe over TCP outranks iSCSI in all categories with IOPS improvements of up to 50% (and more) and latency improvements by up to 34%.

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Dec 17th, 2024 | 16 min read

Encryption At Rest: A Comprehensive Guide to DARE

TLDR: Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) is the process of encrypting data when stored on a storage medium. The encryption transforms the readable data (plaintext) into an encoded format (ciphertext) that

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