Object Storage meets flash in our latest ChalkTalk Video with my colleague George Crump and Par Botes, the VP of FlashBlade Products from Pure Storage. The primary question they discuss is why one would want to use flash for object…
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All-Flash for Mid-tier Data Center
Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Exablox, Flash, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Snapshots, SSD
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VMware and Data Domain Founders Build New Storage Company
When founders of both Data Domain and VMware are introduced by Diane Greene to create a storage company, things are bound to be interesting. Typically, product briefings from Storage Switzerland do not start with the pedigree of those developing the…
Tagged with: Capacity, Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Flash, HCI, Latency, performance, RAID, SSD, VM
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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ChalkTalk Video: Object Storage Needs Flash Too!
Object storage is known by many for its ability to drive down the cost to store data through the use of commodity servers and high capacity hard drives. But object storage systems need flash and object storage system designers need…
The VMware Migration at Scale Problem
Both VMware and Hyper-V have built-in migration tools to help you migrate from one data center to another, and from one converged platform to another. But each of these tools encounters limitations when used on a large scale. In this…
Flash for Files
Flash-based storage systems continue to make inroads into the enterprise. Initially those inroads started as flash systems targeted at improving database response time. Then it spread to virtual workloads to alleviate the IO blender. Now, flash storage is on the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Areal Density, Density, Flash, HDD, IBM, SSD, Unstructured data
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Persistent Memory is Reality
Everspin Briefing Note The concept of persistent memory, also known as non-volatile DRAM, has been with us for a while. However, the idea of RAM that never loses data even during an unexpected power loss is IT nirvana. Today’s semiconductor…
Tagged with: DRAM, Everspin, Flash, IoT, Memory, MRAM, Non-volatile DRAM, Persistent Memory
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ChalkTalk Video: Migrating From VMware to The Google Compute Platform
At the top of most IT project whiteboards is “cloud”. Whether cloud compute or cloud storage, organizations are trying to figuring out how to move their applications or data to these no CapEx environments. One of the most popular is…
Flash Memory Summit Video – The Data Center is All Flash But One Flash Doesn’t Fit All
Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing reliability the all-flash data center is becoming a reality. But as IT professionals understand the benefits of moving more and more workloads to flash they are also realizing that different workloads need different types…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IBM, performance
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