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The State of Deduplication in 2015

Posted on January 26, 2015 by George Crump

At its core, deduplication is an enabling technology. First, it enabled disk based backup devices to become the primary backup target in the data center. Now it promises to enable the all-flash data center by driving down the cost of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, Replication, Retroactive Deduplication, Snapshots, Tiering
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?

Posted on January 13, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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Briefing Note: The Ultra48 AssuredSAN, Dot Hill’s new High-Density Hybrid Array

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Eric Slack

Long-time storage systems OEM, Dot Hill, recently announced the Ultra48 AssuredSAN, a high-density, 48-drive, hybrid disk array that runs their RealStor 2.0 software. The Ultra48 is designed with three drawers of 16 x 2.5” drives that can be configured in…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caching, Dot Hill, FC, HDD, Hybrid array, ISCSI, SSD, Tiering
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Can All-Flash Eliminate IT Silos?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent customer profile “All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study” Storage Switzerland did an extensive interview with CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments, systems processing, and data analytics. During that…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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What impacts All-Flash Storage Performance

Posted on January 6, 2015 by George Crump

There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, DRAM, Hybrid, Hybrid Memory, NAND, Non-volatile memory, NVM, Tegile, TLC Flash
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StrongBox Archive NAS solves problem of Long-term Unstructured Data Storage

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

Unstructured data is burying companies’ storage infrastructures. According to Gartner, files comprise 80 percent of all data, and its growth rate in enterprises will exceed 800% in five years. Compounding this problem is the need to store these data for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, dr, LTFS, LTO, NAS, NFS, RAID, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth

Posted on December 23, 2014 by George Crump

Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Executive Summary When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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StorageShort: Performance of a Cache Miss

Posted on December 17, 2014 by George Crump

One of the most common questions we get asked by customers considering a hybrid arrays is “What is my performance going to look like if there is a cache miss and data has to come from the hard drive tier”.…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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