Which came first, the Success or the Flash? It is said that success breeds success, but sometimes success breeds flash which then breeds more success. This was the case for Litigation Consulting and Compliance firm, The Clutch Group. After landing…
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Briefing Note: Performance Testing gets closer to the Real World
When IT professionals look to solve a storage performance or capacity problem the number of options available to them can almost be overwhelming. Trying to select the right solution to their particular problem seems almost impossible. They simply don’t have…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, I/O, I/O Blender, Load DynamiX, NFS, VDI, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Why would you buy a Storage System without QoS?
QoS (Quality of Service) is a topic that’s becoming more common in storage discussions, partly due to the rise of multi-tenant environments like public clouds. QoS puts management controls on storage resources, especially processing power, so they can maintain performance…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Consolidation, Hybrid, QOS, Quality of service, Shared Storage, Sharing, Virtualization, VVOL
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Posted in Blog
How Storage Vendors Integrate VVols
VVols simplifies the process of setting up and managing storage to support VMs by enabling VMware administrators and users to create specific storage policies. But under the covers VMware leaves the implementation of VVols to the storage array vendor. In…
Did Flash just kill Disk?
Violin Memory Systems has started a marketing campaign pronouncing the death of hard disk drives. They are quick to qualify that disk is dead in terms of primary storage. Violin even had some cool tombstones made up. I want to agree with…
Briefing Note: Hyper-Converged Cloud for Hyper-V
Hyper-convergence is the consolidation of the three traditional data center tiers (compute, networking and storage) into a single converged tier. The goal of hyper-convergence is to speed time to value, allowing new infrastructure to be deployed in a fraction of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Gridstore, Hyper-converged, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
Storage for the Real-Time Data Center
Organizations are expected to respond in real time to the needs of their customers. “Real Time”, however, is much more than just reacting faster to queries, it means tailoring the customer’s interaction with the organization so that they are presented…
Tagged with: All-Flash, ASIC, Dot Hill, Flash, Hybrid array, I/O, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD
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MS-SQL Performance – Things to do before you Flash
Prior to implementing a flash solution, it is important to make sure the environment is ready for it so maximum value can be extracted from the flash investment. Watch this trailer from our Webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?…
Storage Q&A: What Flash is best for VDI?
Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up on a webinar entitled What’s best for VDI: Hybrid or All-Flash Storage. Participants in the live event were able to ask questions to Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Chris Tsilipounidakis from Tegile Systems. Here…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, SSD, Tegile, VDI, Virtual machine
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
Briefing Note: Netlist Readies PCIe Based High Performance NVRAM
The ever-increasing density of virtual infrastructures, and the need to scale databases larger than ever, is creating an ongoing need for faster storage. And while flash has become the “go to” performance option, there are environments that still need more.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Density, Flash, Netlist, PCIe, RAM, Snapshot, SSD, Virtual Infrastructure
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