When it comes to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects, all-flash arrays are quickly moving from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” component of the project. The all-flash required phenomenon is driven partly by users, but largely by…
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NetApp Finally Pivots
Last month I attended Storage Field Day 9, which included a two-hour presentation at NetApp headquarters. My summary statement of what I learned from the briefing is that NetApp is pivoting. By that I mean that they seem to have…
vSphere tackles the Hyperconverged Infrastructure World: VMware VSAN 6.2
VMware is releasing VSAN 6.2, the third major release of VSAN since its introduction in August of 2014. (Like other VMware companion products, the release number is tied to the vSphere release number it is associated with.) This release gives…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, HDD, Hyperconverged, SSD, VMware, VSAN
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Solve the NetApp Storage Performance Problem
IT organizations select NetApp storage because it excels at managing unstructured data. When NetApp first introduced the filer concept, the data it was intended to store was typically user created files from office productivity applications. The files were created, modified,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Flash, I/O, NetApp, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Addressing VDI’s Fork in The Road
Organizations embark on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects to drive down end-user operational costs and to enhance infrastructure security. These projects often evaluate well. During “test mode” there are a limited number of users, making it easy to meet their…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Caching, Cloudistics, Hard disk, I/O, NAS, Performance Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
The Future of Flash Storage – Part 1 – The Future of Hybrid Storage
Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…
Healthcare Provider leverages All-Flash to Power VDI and Improve Patient Care
VDI projects are some of the most challenging and demanding infrastructure projects today; especially on the storage system. Meeting VDI storage performance demands are particularly critical for healthcare organizations because if a doctor or nurse is waiting on IT infrastructure to do their job that also means that a patient is waiting, one that might need critical care. In this case study we speak with a large healthcare provider that is leveraging All-Flash to meet the demands of VDI in Healthcare.
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Infrastructure, Latency, VDI, XtremIO
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
SlideShare: Solving VMware Performance Problems with Flash
There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump…
Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work
The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…
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