Organizations are expected to respond in real time to the needs of their customers. “Real Time”, however, is much more than just reacting faster to queries, it means tailoring the customer’s interaction with the organization so that they are presented…
Prior to implementing a flash solution, it is important to make sure the environment is ready for it so maximum value can be extracted from the flash investment. Watch this trailer from our Webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?…
The ever-increasing density of virtual infrastructures, and the need to scale databases larger than ever, is creating an ongoing need for faster storage. And while flash has become the “go to” performance option, there are environments that still need more.…
There is a new data type that IT professionals need to be concerned with: high-value data. This is unstructured (file) data typically created by users, that has organizationally sensitive information in it and needs to be protected from tampering, loss…
Is seems that Apple has another success on its hands in the Apple Watch, but did you know that the Apple Watch could also be considered Software-Defined Storage (SDS)? I come to this conclusion based on the definition (a.k.a. rationalization)…
Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…
Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…
One of the questions that we are getting more often than ever from IT professionals is “does it make sense for my organization to start to consider OpenStack?”. OpenStack is an open source effort that attempts to offer an Amazon…
We speak to many customers who have all-flash based storage solutions to cut the time it takes for specific processes to complete. In many, many cases the reductions were dramatic, often going from multiple hours to dozens of minutes. Users…
Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any…
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