Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an example,…
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Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, DRAM, Efficiency, Flash, Hard Disk Array, MLC, RAID, SLC, TLC, Virtualization
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The second Web-scale problem – can’t run Microsoft Applications
In our last column, we discussed one of the challenges that web-scale architectures face when the enterprise tries to adopt them: “The first Web-scale problem – too many parts”. As we discussed in our on demand webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise…
Making Storage Software better – The Storage Developer Conference
Most storage start-ups today are software focused. They create a storage solution out of software and then either leverage off the shelf storage hardware or allow the customers to build the rest of the solution themselves. The software first approach…
Tagged with: file sync and share, Flash, PCIe, SAS, SDS, Server-side, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
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The first Web-scale problem – too many parts
While originally intended for online application and storage providers, web-scale architectures have plenty of capabilities that catch the attention of enterprise IT. A web-scale architecture’s ability to scale both performance and capacity in a cost effective manner is at the…
Webinar – How to Overcome the Four Obstacles to VDI Love
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises ‘IT utopia’ by eliminating one of the biggest operational costs in the enterprise, supporting end-user desktops. But to reach this nirvana two major requirements need to be met. First, the cost per virtual desktop has…
Can Storage enable Hyper-V to replace VMware?
In our recent webinar “Don’t let storage eat your Hyper-V Savings” we were asked a question from the audience, “Will Hyper-V ever replace VMware as the predominant hypervisor in the data center?” This loaded question is actually very interesting. While…
Tagged with: Gridstore, HotLink, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Violin Memory, WMware
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Flash Performance vs Flash Features
Recently, Robin Harris over at Storage Mojo made a statement that caused a stir with both users and the industry. My summation of his column and subsequent defense of that column, is that he believes that the performance of a…
Maximum VM Density Requires Visibility
Most data centers have fully embraced server virtualization, with many data centers claiming over 50% of their server environment being virtualized. The early success of this technology has been unprecedented in IT terms, but now a key next step should…
Tagged with: Brocade, Next Generation, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM Density
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Gridstore enables Windows Cloud Data Center
Enterprises are striving toward cloud like operations, often called “The Cloud Data Center”. The goal is for IT to provide the flexibility and scalability that the modern business is demanding from data center operations. The storage infrastructure has a key…
Tagged with: Cloud, Gridstore, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Scale, Software Defined, Virtual machine
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Who needs Cloud Storage – Violin delivers pay as you grow Flash
One of the challenges that every IT planner is trying to figure out is what size, both in terms of capacity and performance, storage system they should invest in. They need to make sure that the storage system will not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hyper-V, Migration, Mirroring, performance, Scale-Out, SQL, Violin
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