Crossbar Briefing Note Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is the nirvana of the memory and storage market. It provides most of the speed and durability of RAM but the persistence of flash. The combination should drive both in-memory computing initiatives and high…
Broadcom Briefing Note No matter how fast the storage infrastructure is, IT professionals can count on users and application owners to want more. Flash storage goes a long way toward appeasing the appetite for performance. But it is the constant…
Data centers are drowning in data. The unprecedented growth comes from a variety of new sources like data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as from traditional sources like user data. But the biggest area of data…
CloudEndure Briefing Note Mobility is a key capability that data centers are looking for as they modernize IT operations. It is the ability to move any application or group of applications from anywhere to anywhere. But workload mobility is more…
HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…
StorageOS Briefing Note Docker and container technology is experiencing rapid adoption by DevOps teams. But its move into the production data center is hindered by the lack of stateful, durable, highly available storage solutions. What are Containers? DevOps is an…
Riverbed Briefing Note Most of the focus in the enterprise is on the data center, but in reality most of the action is in the remote office/branch office (ROBO). ROBO is the new normal for most organizations. It allows them…
Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
Stratoscale Briefing Note Hyperconverged solutions allow organizations to leverage storage and compute in their data centers shrinking the data center footprint and reducing cost of hardware while optimizing software. Most of these solutions provide some of the elements needed to…
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
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