The news is out; I’m joining George Crump and the team at Storage Switzerland. If you know our history, that may leave some of you scratching your heads a bit. George and I don’t agree on much. In fact, when…
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W. Curtis Preston is joining Storage Switzerland
World-renowned blogger and writer W. Curtis Preston is now a member of the Storage Switzerland team of storage analysts. Preston joins Lead Analyst George Crump and Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz in providing Storage Switzerland readers the best education and insight…
Making All-Flash 3D TLC SSD Arrays Enterprise Ready
All-Flash Array Vendors are now releasing systems with 3D TLC SSDs. They claim that they have reached price parity, without data efficiency, to mainstream data center hard disk arrays. 3D TLC NAND does bring the price per GB of flash…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash Array, Flash, HDD, MLC, Over-provisioning, SSD, TLC
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Should Your VDI Project Fork Left or Fork Right?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects evaluate well. During “test mode” there are a limited number of users, making it easy to meet their demands with a cost effective, hard disk-based storage array. User counts increase as these systems move from…
The Future of Flash Storage – Part 1 – The Future of Hybrid Storage
Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…
All-Flash Overkill for VDI?
Many vendors present all-flash arrays (AFA) as the cure-all for virtual desktop infrastructures. Indeed, AFAs can dramatically increase the number of virtual desktops that an infrastructure can support. AFAs also eliminate almost all performance problems; users love their lightning fast…
Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Cloudistics, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, SSD, VDI
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Creating a Crawl, Walk, Run Approach to Archive
In a recent entry, “What Killed Archive?“, I discussed why most data centers don’t move inactive data from expensive storage to less expensive storage, despite a very compelling return on investment (ROI). The number one killer of the archive process…
Tagged with: Archive, Crossroads, Disk, Fujifilm, Recovery, ROI, Tape, Virtualization
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How Tape Protects Data Integrity
In a previous article, “What is Tape? – A History and a Future”, we examined some of the basics of tape technology, past and present. We saw how new developments in the electromagnetic coatings used on tapes has resulted in…
Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016
In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Next Generation, SDS, Software Defined
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The StorageSwiss Top 25 for 2015
In terms of visitors, 2015 was a record year for StorageSwiss.com, and at the end of each year we take a look at the top 25 read articles as indicated by our analytics. Our top 25 list is taken from…
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