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ChalkTalk Video: Can Windows hurt Flash Performance?

Today when an IT Pro faces a performance problem on a Windows-based server running applications like MS-SQL, Exchange and SharePoint, they often turn to a flash-based storage solution. Those IT professionals may be surprised to hear they should try something

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StorageShort: Cost Justify Flash for VDI in 52 Seconds

In this StorageShort George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland discusses one of the best ways to cost justify flash for virtual desktop infrastructures; use the flash array for more than just VDI. Some all-flash and hybrid systems deliver enough

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How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise

After a few year hiatus higher capacity hard drives are coming to market. We expect 8TB drives to be readily available before the end of the year with 10TB drives soon to follow. And at the rate that capacity demands

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MeetTheCEO: Hedvig’s Avinash Lakshman Brings Distributed Systems Approach to Storage

A key designer of the infrastructures of Amazon and Facebook, Hedvig’s CEO, Avinash Lakshman brings a distributed systems approach to storage. Hedvig is a storage software company that delivers a highly distributed platform which is designed to run on off

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Webinar: Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL? Server-side, hybrid or all-flash?

For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance,

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Briefing Note: Micron goes ‘All in’ with 3D NAND

Traditional “planar” NAND flash won’t be able to keep up the capacity increases that are required for SSDs to continue to thrive as a storage technology. This is because they must increase areal density to increase capacity, which means shrinking

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Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) make a big promise to the data center manager; to substantially drive down the cost of supporting user desktops and laptops while increasing the security for them. But for a VDI project to be successful the

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Storage News and Insight for the week of 3-28 – Podcast

George Crump and Eric Slack join me on this week’s News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Links to items we discussed in this week’s news and insights podcast: Hedvig brings software defined storage into focus OCZ Intrepid 3700 2

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Briefing Note: Hedvig brings Software Defined Storage into focus

Software Defined Storage (SDS) may still be a fuzzy concept in the average data center but its promised deliverables are in clear focus. Data center managers are looking for ways to rapidly improve storage provisioning times while increasing overall flexibility.

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Briefing Note: OCZ Intrepid 3700 – 2TB Enterprise SSD priced for Hyper-scale Data Centers

Last November OCZ introduced a new type of high-capacity SSD, the Saber 1000, designed to provide enterprise-like performance and reliability for hyper-scale data centers, at a price point closer to consumer SSDs. But many data centers still needed more, so

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