Flash has certainly become more affordable over the past several years and we continue to see more and more storage products introduced that include flash in one form or another. But most flash implementations are hybrid in nature, requiring that…
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What’s Holding Back the All-flash Data Center?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Clones, Deduplication, Flash, Flash Controllers, Nimbus, Reliability, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?
Adding flash to disk array systems was inevitable, as spinning disk-based storage hit the performance wall and virtualization kept pushing the demand for more IOPS. These early systems were expensive, implementation was difficult and feature sets were extremely basic or…
Why Data Management is Cool Again
Our top read article, by far, recently is “What is Data Profiling”. My colleagues Eric Slack and Colm Keegan also just hosted a well attended webinar, “How To Attain Sustainable Storage Savings“, now available on demand. At the core of…
The All-Flash Exit is Spelled IPO
Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit and today the focus is on solid state storage. The first part of the day was focused on the state of the storage industry, started by a presentation…
MLC vs. SLC – Podcast
Does the difference between MLC vs SLC matter anymore? Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and I about his latest article on MLC and SLC and how manufacturers are working to make MLC more acceptable in the Enterprise. To read…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, flash storage, Hard disk drive, MLC, Server Side Flash, SLC, SSD
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How Do I Integrate All-Flash into My HDD Data Center?
In our webinar, “Overcoming the RoadBlocks to the All-Flash Data Center”, one of the questions that came up is how to integrate an All-Flash Array into the data center. It’s not our position that you should throw out all your…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, HDD, Hybrid, Hypervisors, Migration, Optimization, SSD, Virtual
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IBM Readies FlashSystem For The Data Center
Texas Memory Systems was a personal favorite of mine so I had concerns when IBM acquired them in August of 2012. With cautious optimism, I’ve been watching IBM to see what they did with their savvy investment. The first step…
Is All-flash Ready for the Data Center?
Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…
Webinar – How Server-Side Caching Can Compliment Networked Flash
Watch our On Demand Webinar to learn if Server Side Caching and Shared SSD Arrays need to be an either or proposition? Can the two technologies compliment each other? We think so! Whether you are adding flash to your current…
The 10 Year All-Flash Array – Will Your All-Flash Array Wear Out?
An All-Flash Array is a performance sledgehammer. It shatters the performance problems that most data centers face and will likely continue to do so for years. Unlike traditional hard disk systems, most data centers that purchase an All-Flash Array won’t…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Deduplication, Flash, Flash Array, Flash memory, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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