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…
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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…
Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million
Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…
Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash Array, Flash, NetApp, Next Generation, performance, SolidFire, SSD
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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What is Tape? – A History and a Future
Tape, as a data storage medium in computers, is a technology that is over 60 years old and was first used to backup data from a Univac I system back in 1951. It continued to be used to back up…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work
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.…
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