After being delisted from NASDAQ and filing for Chapter 11, Tintri may have found a savior. Data Direct Networks (DDN) entered into a non-binding letter of intent agreement with Tintri to acquire most of Tintri’s assets. DDN is a well-run…
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Webinar: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array
The first generation of all-flash arrays has come and gone. For many organizations, the time is now to consider the “next” all-flash array. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland and X-IO Storage discuss five things to look for in…
Webinar: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture
The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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Requirements for a Flash to Flash to Cloud Architecture
The first three chapters presented the flash to flash to cloud architecture as a design that enables an organization to overcome the majority of its primary storage challenges as well as provide a method to improve its data protection and…
Flash to Flash to Cloud – Solving the Data Protection Problem
The primary objective of a data protection strategy is to protect data frequently and consistently. The ever growing size of data, the diversity of systems that store that data and the high expectations of the creators and consumers of that…
Why Data Movement Breaks Data Management and How to Fix It
The primary goal of a data management strategy is to reduce storage costs. Achieving that goal requires that at some point data will have to move from primary storage to a less expensive secondary storage. The movement of data between…
Any Cloud Strategy Requires Understanding On-Premises Workloads
Is a Cloud First Strategy Right for IT? The cloud is a resource that most data centers are trying to factor into their future IT planning. Early adopters have found though that not all their workloads work properly, or at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Virtual Instruments
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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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What is the Value of Hybrid Flash in an All-Flash Era?
When flash storage first became viable for the enterprise, it was also very expensive. Early devices where low in capacity as well. Hybrid systems overcame these two shortcomings by mixing hard disk and flash technologies. These systems added the capability…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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Understanding All-Flash Costs – X-IO Briefing Note
All-flash arrays are quickly becoming the production storage system of choice. Organizations like that all-flash arrays eliminate the need to constantly fine tune the environment to wring out that last little bit of performance. The problem is that flash arrays…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, dr, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, X-IO
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