In a recent webinar focused on reducing latency of the flash interconnect, we asked a polling question “Where do you primarily use flash today?”. As you can see from the results users are still trying to figure out how and…
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Analyzing Flash Adoption
Tagged with: Flash, Intel, IOPS, Latency, PCI Express, Proximal Data, SanDisk, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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Nimble’s Strong IPO Should Come As No Surprise
At the time I write this, Nimble Storage has completed its initial public offering (NMBL) and is trading at ~$31 a share, up about $10 from its opening price. While there were some nay-sayers in the analyst community, Storage Switzerland…
Primary Storage Deduplication is Here
In our recent webinar, “The Truth About All-Flash Deduplication”, which is now available for on-demand viewing, we asked attendees where are they applying deduplication technology to improve storage efficiency. It was little surprise that backup storage, at 36% of the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Information technology, Permabit, Storage
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How Are You Guaranteeing Virtualized Application Performance?
Many organizations have adopted a virtualize-first policy, where all new applications brought online are considered for virtualized deployment prior to getting their own bare metal hardware. But there are typically a number of mission critical applications that are still not…
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, LUN, Quality of service, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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What is Latency? And How is it Different from IOPS?
The typical performance metrics used to categorize flash performance are throughput and IOPS. The most important metric may actually be latency. The elimination of latency has become a top concern for customers and flash vendors. That has led to solutions that…
Scale Out or Scale Up? 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer
In theory, scale up storage appeals because the data center can start small and add capacity and performance as needed. Do these theoretical advantages apply to the use cases in which All-Flash storage is most commonly deployed; databases and virtualization?…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Latency, Pure, Scalability, Solid-state drive
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EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8
Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
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EMC ViPR Gets Defined
The next meeting at our EMC Briefing Day was with the Advanced Software Division. They are responsible for their software defined storage (SDS) solution – ViPR. We have written about ViPR extensively in the past but now that the product…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMCbreifingDay, ScaleIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, ViPR
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