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Webinar: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?

Posted on July 6, 2016 by George Crump

Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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The Need for Storage Fragmentation

Posted on June 20, 2016 by George Crump

Here is the goal: Having a data center that consolidates all data onto a single storage system from one vendor. The hope is that by consolidating to a single system, the organization will reduce management headaches that IT administrators face…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Mobility, FC, Flash, Fragmentation, NAS, Object Storage, Primary Data, QOS, Virtualization
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VMware Feeling the HCI Pinch

Posted on May 31, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Read between the lines of VMware’s latest VSAN announcement and you can learn a few things. The first thing I see is that VMware is definitely feeling the pinch — or at the very least worried they will feel the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, HCI, Hypervisor, SNW, VMware, VSAN
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Heterogeneous Storage Analytics Difficult to Gather

Posted on May 24, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Knowledge is power. But knowledge in a heterogeneous storage environment can be difficult to come by. Modern data centers often have a mix of software-defined storage, traditional proprietary storage, all-flash or hybrid storage arrays, and even cloud storage – all…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, FalconStor, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, SSD, Virtualization
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Flash is not Wine

Posted on May 17, 2016 by George Crump

Flash is the go-to performance option when IT professionals face a storage performance challenge. The problem is that the price of flash is still at a premium versus what you can buy traditional hard disk technology for. And the reality…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Flash, Flash-as-a-Service, Hybrid, performance, SSD, Tegile
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Re-Thinking Scale-Out Storage

Posted on May 17, 2016 by George Crump

Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, performance, Scale-Out, Tintri, VM
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EMC World 2016 – EMC’s All-Flash Unity

Posted on May 5, 2016 by George Crump

EMC chose their annual user conference, EMC World 2016 as EMC’s coming out party for a new storage offering: Unity. While all the marketing around Unity focuses on an $18,000 all-flash configuration it is a hybrid solution available in hard…

Tagged with: All-Flash, EMC, EMC World 2016, Flash, QOS, SSD, XtremIO
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Podcast – EMC World – Day 3 Recap

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will give you a recap of EMC World day 3…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, EMC World 2016, Podcast, XtremIO
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