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Making Cents of Flash for VDI

Posted on March 12, 2015 by George Crump

There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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SlideShare – Hyper-scale Nightmare -The Potential Consequences of using Consumer-grade Flash in the Data Center

Posted on March 6, 2015 by George Crump

Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used…

Tagged with: Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, Reliability, SSD
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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SolidFire Analyst Day: Unlimited Drive Wear, Seamless Upgrades, more Platforms

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

SolidFire has historically been a solution targeted for service providers and private clouds, with features that support Quality of Service (QoS), multi-tenancy, automation, etc. Their plan has been to provide a consolidated, high-performance storage solution that scales seamlessly and can…

Tagged with: Flash, QOS, Quality of service, SaaS, Software as a service, SolidFire, SSD
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The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Flash, Hybrid, I/O, Infrastructure, Latency, SSD, Webinar
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Micron Invests Big to Drive Flash Innovation Outside of the Box

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Eric Slack

Fifty percent of enterprise data centers are leaving the big storage companies, according to Micron VP, Darren Thomas, and chip vendors like Micron can’t simply rely on these OEMs any more to sustain and grow their businesses. This was a…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Big data, Briefing, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, Micron, NAND, Software Defined, SSD, Unstructured data
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Solving the Big Three VDI Storage problems

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have the potential of reducing the cost to deploy and support an organization’s desktops and laptops. But VDI presents three big problems to the storage infrastructure; assuring the proper use of flash, the proper placement of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Briefing Note: CTERA’s Cloud Data Services Platform Transforms SMB and ROBO IT Service Delivery

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Eric Slack

New cloud technologies and their associated economics have created both opportunities and challenges as organizations wrestle with how to govern, optimize and automate the delivery of IT services. IT managers are seeking new ways to deliver these services from within…

Tagged with: Briefing, Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Flash, FS&S, Gateway, Hybrid, IT-as-a-Service, ITaaS
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Briefing Note: NexGen Focuses on Business Value of Data – and a Smarter Cache

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Eric Slack

Recent research by IDC predicts that IT professionals will be managing 4-5 times more data per person by 2020, but only 5% of that data will be important. So while a lot of data is being created, it’s not all…

Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, NexGen, performance, Purpose Built, QOS, Quality of service, SLA, Virtualization
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The Three Problems with Software Defined Storage

Posted on February 19, 2015 by George Crump

Software defined storage (SDS) promises to reduce storage capital and operational costs by abstracting data services from the storage hardware. To deliver on these promises, SDS typically enables the use of commodity storage which should lower storage acquisition costs. It…