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Briefing Note: QLogic Powering End to End 16Gb FC

Posted on July 6, 2015 by George Crump

Storage, the Bump in the 16Gb Road 16 Gbps (Gen 5) Fibre Channel (FC) has been available for several years and it is an ideal network choice for storage systems that count on flash to meet the performance demands of…

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Briefing Note: The All-Flash Array is Software AND Hardware

Posted on June 1, 2015 by George Crump

Pure Storage Announces M Series One of the questions facing all-flash array vendors as they come to market is do they take a software first or hardware first strategy when it comes to system development? The advantage of the software…

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EMC World 2015 – Building a Data Services Community with FAST.X

Posted on May 5, 2015 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing almost every IT organization is storage system sprawl, a problem that is increasing. When we visit a data center there is often a storage system for each workload; one for virtual desktops, one for virtual servers, one for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Briefing Note, Cloud storage, Elas, EMC, EMCworld2015, Object Storage, VMAX
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EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…

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EMC World 2015 – Simplifying HyperConvergence – VxRack

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

EMC was one of the first companies to roll out a converged infrastructure when they created VCE, a turnkey solution that combined VMware, CISCO server/networking technology and EMC storage called “vBlock”. VCE and others like it significantly reduced the time it took…

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