My recent article stating that the current generation of All-Flash Arrays should last for 10 years has created a bit of stir across the storage community. Chris Evans over at Architecting IT did the best job of arguing against a…
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Yes You Do Want Your Flash Array To Last For 10 years!
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, data centers, performance, storage software, storage system
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Adding PCIe SSD Storage To Your MacBook Pro
Anyone that knows me knows that I like to use Macintosh products wherever possible, including in the Storage Switzerland labs. So while we have plenty of Windows servers, I try to do as much work as I can from my…
Analyzing Flash Adoption
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…
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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Proof Point – Snapshots Replaces Backup – How One Customer Solved Their Company’s Backup Problems
Grand River Conservation Authority is a Canadian watershed management agency, similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority in the US. They’re responsible for an area the size of Delaware with a population of almost 1 million people. GRCA has 150 FT…
Tagged with: Backup, Delaware, Incremental backup, Microsoft SQL Server, Nimble Storage, Snapshot, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Correcting EMC – Tape is More Innovative Than Disk
It happened again, another industry veteran has dismissed tape as an obsolete technology. This time it was an EMC executive responding to the tired question “is tape dead yet?”, posed in a recent TechTarget interview. His response was “There is…
Tagged with: EMC, Information technology, Linear Tape File System, LTO, SpectraLogic, Tape, Tape drive, TechTarget
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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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Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?
All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
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