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Making Cents of Flash for VDI

Posted on March 12, 2015 by George Crump

There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Solving the Big Three VDI Storage problems

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have the potential of reducing the cost to deploy and support an organization’s desktops and laptops. But VDI presents three big problems to the storage infrastructure; assuring the proper use of flash, the proper placement of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Webinar: What’s best for VDI Hybrid or All-Flash Storage

Posted on February 23, 2015 by George Crump

The top concern for IT planners looking to implement or expand the use of their VDI investment is storage performance. This is because every step that is taken to drive down cost per desktop, or improve the user experience, impacts…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Why HGST is now building Storage Systems

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…

Tagged with: Archive, Array, Capacity, HGST, performance, WD, Western Digital
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Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?

Posted on July 29, 2014 by George Crump

Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an example,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, DRAM, Efficiency, Flash, Hard Disk Array, MLC, RAID, SLC, TLC, Virtualization
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Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Eric Slack

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Disk, Flash, NAND, Nimbus
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How Do I Integrate All-Flash into My HDD Data Center?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by George Crump

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…