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Is it Time to Kill the Solid-State Arrays Magic Quadrant

Posted on November 19, 2015 by George Crump

Gartner recently released its 2015 Magic Quadrants for General-Purpose Disk Arrays and another one for Solid-State Arrays. Over the next few weeks we will provide our analysis of these two charts, but first we need to discuss why there are…

Hardware First – Designing All-Flash Arrays From a Hardware First Perspective

Posted on October 29, 2015 by George Crump

Data centers have to meet the increasing performance demands of scale out databases, big data analytics, and dense virtual environments. These data centers need to meet these demands without requiring more data center floor space or consuming more power. All-flash…

Refreshing to an All-Flash Array

Posted on August 4, 2015 by George Crump

Every few years the time comes to update and refresh a data centers storage infrastructure. As part of this process many are considering all-flash arrays (AFAs). Vendors have flooded the market with AFA products, and for the IT professional sorting…