Fifty percent of enterprise data centers are leaving the big storage companies, according to Micron VP, Darren Thomas, and chip vendors like Micron can’t simply rely on these OEMs any more to sustain and grow their businesses. This was a…
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Micron Invests Big to Drive Flash Innovation Outside of the Box
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Big data, Briefing, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, Micron, NAND, Software Defined, SSD, Unstructured data
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How FireHost Architects for Storage Performance
FireHost is a leading secure managed cloud provider helping companies protect data and meet compliance requirements, typically for PCI and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPA) driven businesses. In this video we talk with FireHost Vice President of Technology Todd…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, HIPA, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance
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SolidFire lowers Entry Point for Cloud-scale, All-flash Arrays
SolidFire is the all-flash array manufacturer that came to market with a scale-out storage system tailored for large-scale multi-tenant environments. These systems offered guaranteed performance, high availability, automated management and a strong efficiency story, based on the advantages that all-flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Capacity, Cloud, Infrastructure, IOPS, Multi-Tenant, Scalability, Scale-Out, SolidFire, SSD
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ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays
Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array. Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Storage, Tegile
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?
Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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Dell World 2014 Solutions Expo Fluid Cache and Entry Level All-Flash Array $25k
At Dell World 2014 we spent quite a bit of time on the solutions expo floor interviewing Dell product specialists and getting up close with the hardware. In this video we discuss Dell Fluid Cache and Dell’s new entry All-Flash…
Dell World 2014 Announcements: Low-cost all-flash array, Nutanix converged solution, EqualLogic hardware refresh
Dell is announcing the “most attractively priced, entry-level all-flash array in the industry”, according to Executive Director of Product Management for Storage, Travis Vigil. The SC4020, at $25,000 for a 6 x 480GB SSD configuration, brings high-performance storage to the…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Converge, Dell, Dell World, EqualLogic, Hybrid, Nutanix, SSD
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Non-disruptive Flash – How important is it?
Recently EMC announced that they were upgrading the storage software that drives their XtremIO to be able to compress and deduplicate data. This is an important addition, since not all data benefits from deduplication, databases being a good example. But…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Compression, Data compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
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