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Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array

Posted on August 15, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
Posted in Briefing Note

StorageSwiss Take on the HDS Acquisition of Sepaton

Posted on August 14, 2014 by George Crump

Yesterday, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced they had acquired Massachusetts-based Sepaton, an established manufacturer of purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) that use advanced de-duplication to shorten backup times and minimize backup appliance “sprawl”. The company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary…

Tagged with: Acquisition, Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, Disk Based, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, PBBA, Sepaton
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HGST upgrades Flash Acceleration hardware and software products

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Eric Slack

HGST, a division of longtime disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced updates for two products in the application acceleration market. FlashMAX III is the latest generation of half-height, half-length PCIe accelerator cards designed for high performance enterprise and hyper-scale environments.…

Tagged with: Deduplication, Disk Drive, Flash, Flash Acceleration, HGST, PCIe, performance, SSD, VeloBit, Western Digital
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XtremIO update at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 8, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Latency, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Thin provisioning, XtremIO
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Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid, IOPS, Replication, Reverse Hybrid Array, Tegile
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Adding Deduplication and Compression without impacting performance

Posted on July 31, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Automated Tiering, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, IOPS, Multi-core, performance, Permabit, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Virtualized Hyperconvergence – Compute, Storage and Backup all-in-one

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The term “Hyperconvergence” refers to the packaging or bundling of multiple hardware and software components into a single platform to give end-users a simple and rapid way to deploy applications. As a hyperconverged system (server, storage & networking resources combined…

Tagged with: Backup, Compute, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, PCIe, SimpliVity, Storage, Virtualization
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Who needs Cloud Storage – Violin delivers pay as you grow Flash

Posted on July 15, 2014 by George Crump

One of the challenges that every IT planner is trying to figure out is what size, both in terms of capacity and performance, storage system they should invest in. They need to make sure that the storage system will not…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hyper-V, Migration, Mirroring, performance, Scale-Out, SQL, Violin
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Not your father’s Compression – Permabit delivers HIOPS Compression

Posted on July 10, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HIOPS, Permabit, Replication, Thin provisioning
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Flash Arrays need high performance compression

Posted on July 8, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Compression, Dedupe, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash Array, performance, Permabit
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