The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: How NVMe Will Change Flash Storage
The bottleneck in flash storage is often the interface. SAS/SATA interfaces were designed specifically for hard disk drives not for flash media. For example, flash storage can support many more simultaneous I/O operations. The resolution to the problem is to…
Hybrid Flash Array Enables Local Government to Answer the Storage Performance Call
When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators like Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and he was having those “calls” come in too often. A…
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
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Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work
The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…
What’s next for Flash? Lower Latency and reduced costs
As we discussed in a recent entry “The Flash Performance Euphoria is OVER” the next generation of flash solutions will be compared to the performance of the first generation of flash solutions not hard disk drives. Users have learned that…
ChalkTalk Video: Maximizing the Potential of NVDIMM Storage Class Memory with Software Defined Memory
Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…
Tagged with: Convergence, Flash, Next Generation, NVDIMM, Plexistor, Software Defined
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Leveraging Hybrid Flash to Answer the Storage Performance Call
Case Study Preview When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators such as Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and after upgrading to VMware vSphere 5.1…
What is Object Storage and what can you use it for?
For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
Storage Controllers Active-Active vs. Active-Passive
The storage controller is the compute part of a storage array that runs the storage software. If the storage controller fails, the storage software can’t run and the array goes offline. As a result, redundant storage controllers are critical to…
Tagged with: Active-Active, Active-Passive, Controller, Hybrid array, LUNs, Tegile, VMware
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Using Object Storage to Reverse Cloud Storage
A top priority for IT professionals in 2016 is deciding on a cloud storage strategy. Of the available options, most consider using the public cloud for secondary storage purposes, like backup and archiving, to be the most obvious path to…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cold Data, dr, Hybrid, SwiftStack
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