Data centers are ready for increased data efficiency that they can get from primary storage deduplication and compression, especially for flash based storage systems. The cost of flash justifies these data reduction technologies and flash’s high performance actually enables their…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents some real challenges for companies looking to replace their inventories of desktop PCs. It has to provide a desktop experience that’s acceptable to users and an infrastructure that costs the same or less than the…
The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…
One of the headlines at this years Flash Memory Summit was the much broader participation of the traditional storage vendors. Dell, IBM, Hitachi and HP were all there. Not to be left out, EMC also had a presence and we…
Hybrid arrays vendors were out to get some respect at the Flash Memory Summit. Tegile was one of them, but their approach to hybrid systems has a distinctive all-flash feel. Their recently announced T3800 is an all-flash array that can…
IT professionals expect a lot from their storage systems; they want volume management, thin provisioning, snapshot, clones, automated tiering, replication etc. Increasingly today, they want deduplication and compression as well, so they can squeeze every ounce of capacity out of…
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,…
Compression has been available in one form or another for decades, but most of the time compression is applied as data is moving off of primary storage. For example, most backup software or hardware compresses data as it moves into…
Startups like Nimble, Pure Storage, SolidFire and Tegile are starting to take business away from the traditional tier 1 storage vendors. Their key differentiator, and often the winning point, has been their ability to efficiently use flash storage. Making flash…
When a data center considers an all-flash array, it is generally in response to a storage performance demand for a specific application. In other words, it is a point solution to an immediate and pressing problem. For this particular situation,…
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