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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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When is it Time to Move to NVMe?

Posted on September 24, 2019 by George Crump

Most major storage vendors are now delivering Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based All-Flash Arrays. Initially, most of these arrays use NVMe drives internally but connect to the storage network via standard network protocols like SCSI over Fibre Channel. A few…

Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Fibre Channel, Flash, ISCSI, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN, SAS
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Webinar: Designing SAN Infrastructure for NVMe

Posted on September 24, 2019 by George Crump

NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) are on the near-horizon for many organizations. IT planners need to ready their SANs for this new low latency, high-performance storage technology. To accomplish this task, organizations need to invest now in technology that…

Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Fibre Channel, Flash, ISCSI, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN, SAS
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Lightboard Video: Analyzing SANs at NVMe Speeds

Posted on September 10, 2019 by George Crump

The enterprise storage industry is undergoing a widespread transformation. Scale-out applications can generate the IO demands needed to justify further investment in storage area network infrastructure. NVMe All-Flash Arrays can deliver millions of IOPS with unprecedented bandwidth. NVMe-oF, and especially,…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, Fibre Channel, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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SlideShare: Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

All-Flash arrays are no longer a one size fits all. There is a clear line of demarcation between standard all-flash and extreme flash, but most suppliers try to squeeze all of an organization’s problems into a single system architecture because…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Meet the President of the Fibre Channel Industry Association: Mark Jones

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Against the backdrop of Moore’s Law and ultra-low latency non-volatile memory express (NVMe) solid state drives, network speed and total capacity are increasingly the levers that make or break an application’s performance. Fibre Channel (FC) storage networking may be frequently…

Tagged with: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, FCIA, Fibre Channel, Latency, MeetTheCEO, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SSD
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What is High versus Extreme Performance?

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Krista Macomber

While some applications in the data center require extreme performance, high performance is now a default requirement for all production applications. How performance is measured varies by application (for example, one application might require very high throughput while others might…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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What is Extreme Performance?

Posted on May 8, 2019 by George Crump

The modern data center has to support many different types of workloads, each of which makes different demands on the storage architecture. Today, standard all-flash arrays (AFA) are the mainstream storage system for the data centers and conventional best practice…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Webinar: Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance

Posted on April 30, 2019 by George Crump

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Bringing Tier 0 in From the Lunatic Fringe – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on October 4, 2018 by George Crump

In most data centers, Tier 1 production storage has evolved from high-end hard disk-based systems to hybrid systems supported by flash to all-flash arrays. These Tier 1 systems are also typically well equipped with enterprise features like snapshots, replication and…