After a busy day of shooting ChalkTalk videos Storage Switzerland took to the streets of San Francisco to see what was going on after hours. Our first stop of the night was an event at the Thirsty Bear, hosted by…
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Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array
The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…
Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Not your father’s Compression – Permabit delivers HIOPS Compression
Compression has been available in one form or another for decades, but most of the time compression is applied as data is moving off of primary storage. For example, most backup software or hardware compresses data as it moves into…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HIOPS, Permabit, Replication, Thin provisioning
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Storage Architect and the DBA
Three Steps To A Productive Relationship That Ensures Optimal Database Performance When database performance issues arise, the finger of blame is often pointed at the storage infrastructure, and this can lead to conflict between the database administrator and the storage…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Database Performance, DBA, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, PCIe, SolarWinds, SSD
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
How to Properly Deploy Flash: Webinar Preview – Podcast
Flash is more than just fast storage. Intel’s Andrew Flint and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan join us on The Storage Podcast to talk about how flash can fit into the data center if used correctly in the right…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Intel, SSD, Storage Switzerland
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
The All-Flash Exit is Spelled IPO
Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit and today the focus is on solid state storage. The first part of the day was focused on the state of the storage industry, started by a presentation…
MLC vs. SLC – Podcast
Does the difference between MLC vs SLC matter anymore? Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and I about his latest article on MLC and SLC and how manufacturers are working to make MLC more acceptable in the Enterprise. To read…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, flash storage, Hard disk drive, MLC, Server Side Flash, SLC, SSD
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
Storage Sprawl – How Flash Let Us Down
As we discussed in our last column “Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?”, toward the end of the last decade (2007-2010) the data center began to tap into the abundance of compute power available to it but providing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Coho Data, Flash, Software Defined, Sprawl, SSD, Virtual
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Planning For The Next Five Years of Performance
In my last few columns, I have discussed the value of scale-out and scale-up storage systems. I’ve also discussed the potential for All-Flash systems to last twice as long as hard drive based systems. In those columns I’ve tried to…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Scalability, Scale-Out, Storage, Storage Performance, SwiftTest, Workload
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