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ChalkTalk Video: Making 3D TLC NAND Ready for the Enterprise

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

3D TLC NAND promises to bring new levels of density to flash storage and with it new record low price points. The effective dollar per GB of a 3D TLC All-Flash Array could make hybrid arrays obsolete. The challenge is…

Tagged with: 3D, All-Flash, Data efficiency, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, SSD, VMworld
Posted in Video

The Top 3 Deduplication Trends

Posted on July 22, 2015 by George Crump

When combined with compression and thin provisioning, deduplication makes a backup disk a cost effective strategy and now makes considering a primary storage tier consisting only of flash reasonable. In our on demand webinar Permabit CEO, Tom Cook and I…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HDD, MLC, Permabit, SLC, TLC, VM
Posted in Blog

Flash Strategies for MS-SQL

Posted on May 7, 2015 by George Crump

Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Flash, Hybrid array, IOPS, MS-SQL, Server-side, Tegile
Posted in Article

Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth

Posted on December 23, 2014 by George Crump

Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
Posted in Briefing Note

StorageShort: Performance of a Cache Miss

Posted on December 17, 2014 by George Crump

One of the most common questions we get asked by customers considering a hybrid arrays is “What is my performance going to look like if there is a cache miss and data has to come from the hard drive tier”.…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in StorageShort

SlideShare – How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array

Posted on December 3, 2014 by George Crump

One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Slideshare

Deduplication makes Hybrid Arrays more predictable

Posted on December 2, 2014 by George Crump

Hybrid arrays, arrays that mix flash and hard drives in order to strike a balance between dollar per GB and dollar per IOP, typically cause one common point of concern for IT planners; Predictably. One of the key ways to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Blog

SlideShare – Is The All-Flash Data Center Myth or Reality?

Posted on December 2, 2014 by George Crump

In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland and Tegile discuss if the All-Flash Data Center can become reality. We explore the return on investment that All-Flash systems can deliver, like increased user and virtual machine densities, lower drive counts and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Clones, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Slideshare

Tegile Provides More Flash Options

Posted on November 21, 2014 by George Crump

Tegile recently announced two new members of its product family and an update to its software that promises to get more data centers taking their first significant flash step. This announcement addresses two challenges head-on that Storage Switzerland sees facing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Solving the concerns of NOT going All-Flash – Podcast

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up for a webinar on the four things you can do to a Hybrid Array to achieve All-Flash performance. Joining me in the podcast talk about webinar attendee concerns about a hybrid flash are George Crump…