IT Administrator Interview: Solving VMware Performance Problems with Flash

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There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are  data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump sits down with Fritz Gielow, Network System Analyst with the County of Nevada IT team, to discuss how they solved their performance challenges with a hybrid array. Also on the webinar is Chris Tsilipounidakis, Manager of Product Marketing at Tegile.

In this on demand webinar we discussed the storage challenges that VMware creates for IT professionals and how flash-based storage systems can not only help solve storage performance challenges, they can also simplify storage management and increase storage efficiency. We also speak to Fritz Gielow, IT Administrator with the County of Nevada and discussed how flash has solved their VMware storage problems.

In this webinar you learn:

1. The Three Things That Flash Based Storage Brings To VMware
2. Problems that the County of Nevada faced and how a hybrid array solved them
3. Why the County of Nevada chose Tegile over the other flash based solutions on the market

Webinar registrants can also download a copy of Storage Switzerland’s flash case study “Solving VMware Storage Challenges with Flash” which describes the County of Nevada’s journey to a flash-based storage infrastructure.

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About George Crump

George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.