Yearly Archives: 2016

All-Flash Array Hardware AND Software Matters

Posted on January 25, 2016 by George Crump

HDS Flash Update Briefing Note IT professionals typically purchase all-flash arrays (AFA) to solve storage performance problems in their database, virtual desktop, virtual server and HPC environments. They are the performance sledgehammer that makes I/O concerns a thing of the…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hitachi Data Systems, performance, QOS, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
Posted in Briefing Note

Making All-Flash 3D TLC SSD Arrays Enterprise Ready

Posted on January 21, 2016 by George Crump

All-Flash Array Vendors are now releasing systems with 3D TLC SSDs. They claim that they have reached price parity, without data efficiency, to mainstream data center hard disk arrays. 3D TLC NAND does bring the price per GB of flash…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash Array, Flash, HDD, MLC, Over-provisioning, SSD, TLC
Posted in Blog

The Advantages of Storage Sprawl

Posted on January 19, 2016 by George Crump

Fighting storage sprawl may sound like the right thing to do but for some data centers storage sprawl is a reality that they can’t stop. There are too many moving parts. Instead of fighting it, it may make more sense to face reality. Learn how second generation software-defined storage enables IT to embrace sprawl.

Tagged with: Capacity, Consolidation, ioFABRIC, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Sprawl
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Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication Need to Keep Pace

Posted on January 18, 2016 by George Crump

ExaGrid Briefing Note The performance and capacity capabilities of production storage are increasing to meet the demands of the virtualized data center. These systems can now scale to support highly dense virtual machine populations and the never-ending demand for more…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, performance, Recovery, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

The Future of Flash Storage – Part 1 – The Future of Hybrid Storage

Posted on January 15, 2016 by George Crump

Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, performance, SSD, TLC, Virtual, VM
Posted in Blog

Docker Defined Storage

Posted on January 14, 2016 by George Crump

Portworx Briefing Note Docker is changing the application development process, but most data centers want to leverage the agility and efficiency of containers from development all the way through production. The move to production requires data persistence that keeps the…

Tagged with: Capacity, Container, Docker, Infrastructure, performance, Portworx, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

All-Flash Overkill for VDI?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by George Crump

Many vendors present all-flash arrays (AFA) as the cure-all for virtual desktop infrastructures. Indeed, AFAs can dramatically increase the number of virtual desktops that an infrastructure can support. AFAs also eliminate almost all performance problems; users love their lightning fast…

Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Cloudistics, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, SSD, VDI
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Enterprise Grade SDS

Posted on January 13, 2016 by George Crump

SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Briefing Note Industry Analysts predict that Software Defined Storage (SDS) will replace enterprise class storage over the next five to ten years. The key drivers for this displacement are increased cost and flexibility as well as…

Tagged with: Capacity, Linux, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note