General Motors and General Electric, both in business for over a century, now employ more IT professionals than most IT vendors. Both companies have described themselves as software firms. At the heart of any IT company is data and most…
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Portfolio Analysis: DDN Delivers a Powerful Portfolio for the Data Intensive Enterprise
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, Flash, Hard disk, HPC, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, NAS, Software Defined, SSD, WOS
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
ChalkTalk Video: Making 3D TLC NAND Ready for the Enterprise
3D TLC NAND promises to bring new levels of density to flash storage and with it new record low price points. The effective dollar per GB of a 3D TLC All-Flash Array could make hybrid arrays obsolete. The challenge is…
ChalkTalk Video: The Struggle Between Flash Performance and Capacity
The challenge when selecting a flash array is, do you go with performance in the form of all-flash or do you go with capacity in the form of a hybrid array? To overcome these challenges vendors are coming to market…
ChalkTalk Video: Navigating the All-Flash and SDS Feature Wars
IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…
Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Why Storage vMotion hurts and how to stop the pain
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
Vidant Health Leverages Flash to think differently about Healthcare Data Management
Most first time all-flash array buyers make the leap to solid state performance because they have hit a performance wall. While Vidant Health was certainly ready for a performance upgrade, late last year their immediate concern was capacity and security.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, IOPS, Latency, Snapshot, SSD, XtremIO
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
Refreshing to an All-Flash Array
Every few years the time comes to update and refresh a data centers storage infrastructure. As part of this process many are considering all-flash arrays (AFAs). Vendors have flooded the market with AFA products, and for the IT professional sorting…
Tagged with: Acquisition, AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, FalconStor, FC, HDD, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Unifying Data Protection with Software-Defined Storage
One of the promises of software-defined storage (SDS) is the unification of storage services and the management of those services. The result should be a reduction in the cost to provision and manage storage resources. But some SDS solutions can…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, FalconStor, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
SlideShare: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization
Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar…
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