As I mentioned in my previous blog about the IBM-Cleversafe deal, the goal of any technology buyout or merger is to make the combined entities more valuable than they were prior to the acquisition. At Storage Switzerland, we refer to…
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ChalkTalk Video: Valets vs. Parking Lots – Explaining Object Storage
Object storage is ideal for storing unstructured data. Understanding why it is so good at object storage is the challenge. In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sanjay Patel, an Advisory Systems Engineer for EMC,…
Vidant Health Leverages Flash to think differently about Healthcare Data Management
Most first time all-flash array buyers make the leap to solid state performance because they have hit a performance wall. While Vidant Health was certainly ready for a performance upgrade, late last year their immediate concern was capacity and security.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, IOPS, Latency, Snapshot, SSD, XtremIO
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Posted in Case Study
Weekly Storage Podcast: Storage Industry Quarterly Reports
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. That’s the best way to describe the latest round of quarterly reports coming from businesses in the Storage Industry. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump, Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the…
Tagged with: Amazon Web Services, Commvault, EMC, HP, IBM, Micron, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Podcast, Quantum, SanDisk, SimpliVity, Symantec, Violin Memory
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Service Provider Counts on XtremIO to Expand Business
Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from…
June 5 Storage News and Insights
George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk about Open Source: What it is and how it will change the storage landscape. Then we hit on Pure Storage and its announcement of the M Series, it makes the All-Flash Array that is…
All-Flash Case Study: The Clutch Group – 85% Faster Apps
Which came first, the Success or the Flash? It is said that success breeds success, but sometimes success breeds flash which then breeds more success. This was the case for Litigation Consulting and Compliance firm, The Clutch Group. After landing…
EMC World 2015 – Faster Flash for Analytics Workloads – EMC’s DSSD
We speak to many customers who have all-flash based storage solutions to cut the time it takes for specific processes to complete. In many, many cases the reductions were dramatic, often going from multiple hours to dozens of minutes. Users…
EMC World 2015 Day 2 Podcast
George Crump is in Las Vegas for EMC World 2015 and joins Charlie Hodges with an update from the second day at of the annual event. We discuss EMC’s Federation involving Pivotal, VMware and other partners, and how that Federation…
EMC World 2015 – Open Sourcing SDS
Software defined storage (SDS) is the abstraction of storage services and control from the underlying storage hardware. One of its promises is the elimination of vendor lock-in. But, as we have criticized in the past, this freedom comes at a…
Tagged with: EMC, EMCworld2015, Open Source, SDS, Software Defined Storage, software layer, storage services, ViPR
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