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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One of the techniques that storage vendors use to reduce the cost of hard disk-based storage is deduplication. Deduplication is the elimination of redundant data across files. The technology is ideal for backup, since so much of a current copy…
Eliminating “waits” allows customers, users, and applications to interact with the IT infrastructure more fluidly. As a result, IT professionals are focused on improving response times, and storage is getting much of the attention. The demand for performance is accelerating…
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…
