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…
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Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million
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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Overcoming the All-Flash Array Implementation Challenges
Eliminating “waits” allows customers, users, and applications to interact with the IT infrastructure more fluidly. As a result, IT professionals are focused on improving response times, and storage is getting much of the attention. The demand for performance is accelerating…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Cloudistics, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Migrate, MLC, NAND, SSD
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Is it Time to Kill the Solid-State Arrays Magic Quadrant
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…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Disk array, Flash, General-purpose, Hard disk, Hybrid array, Solid State, SSD
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Refreshing to an All-Flash Array
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…
Tagged with: Acquisition, AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, FalconStor, FC, HDD, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Dell Introduces TLC–3D NAND All-Flash Array
An ongoing concern about flash storage is its endurance. In other words, IT professionals are concerned that these systems will wear out due to heavy write activity prior to being fully amortized. All-flash arrays may be an exception. These systems…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Flash, MLC, SLC, TLC
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Briefing Note: Solving the Inflexibility of All-Flash Arrays
Coho Data Announces All-Flash Nodes All-Flash Array’s (AFA) are a performance sledgehammer for IT Planners looking to address performance issues in their environments. These systems allow data centers to respond faster to the needs of the business and they allow…
June 5 Storage News and Insights
George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk about Open Source: What it is and how it will change the storage landscape. Then we hit on Pure Storage and its announcement of the M Series, it makes the All-Flash Array that is…
StorageShort: The Strength of Disk vs. Flash
It seems that some all-flash vendors are quick to write off hard disk drives (HDD) with some even pronouncing HDDs dead. But disks have a role to play in the data center and even for primary storage. HDDs still have…
EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale
The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Briefing Note, Disaster recovery, EMC, EMCworld2015, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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