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The DSI: A Resource For All End Users – Podcast

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The Data Storage Innovation Conference is coming up from April 22 through 24 in Santa Clara. To help explain why it would be a good idea for all end users to go to the conference, George Crump and I talk…

Tagged with: Computer data storage, Data Storage Innovation Conference, DSI, SNIA, Storage Certification
Posted in Podcast

Need Consulting? We can help. – Podcast

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Who better to help you with your storage issues than to get input from the folks who you listen to here! Lead Analyst George Crump talks about the consulting service we provide at Storage Switzerland. Subscribe to our podcasts at…

Podcast – How Will You Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In this podcast we discuss Storage Hardware Sprawl. Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on.…

Tagged with: Computer data storage, Data Center Sprawl, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Hardware Sprawl
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On-Demand Panel Discussion – Storage Predictions and Planning 2014

Posted on December 18, 2013 by George Crump

2014 will be a year unlike any other for IT Planners. The pressure to meet the performance demands of an increasingly dense virtual infrastructure and even more transaction-heavy databases is higher than ever. Add to that the out-of-control growth of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Computer data storage, Data deduplication, Flash, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Storage
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Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays

Posted on December 20, 2012 by George Crump

All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and give a complete set of robust features like snapshots and replication, similar to traditional hard-drive based storage systems. While their performance enhancing potential is very appealing, All-Flash arrays have…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Computer data storage, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, Pure, Solid-state drive, VMware
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What Are IOPS? and why should you care?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Eric Slack

In a recent article, “What is I/O and why should you care”, we discussed what input and output (I/O) operations are and how a storage system’s ability to support these I/Os is a finite resource, one that’s arguably as important…

Tagged with: Computer data storage, Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RPM, Solid-state drive, Storage
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Tier-1 Storage vs. Tier-2 Storage

Posted on May 12, 2011 by George Crump

It used to be that mid-range data centers could buy a storage system designed for that market and never worry about growing beyond that system’s capacity and performance capabilities. Now however, thanks to server virtualization, “big data” and cloud initiatives,…