Short of buying a new storage system with storage efficiency (deduplication and compression) built in, it is difficult to add the technology to an existing storage array. Today there are two ways to accomplish this. First, you can wait for…
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The difference between Retroactive Deduplication and Software Defined Storage
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HDD, Permabit, Purpose Built, Retroactive Deduplication, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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Business Outcome Driven Storage
The new mantra for IT is to focus the technology and services their data centers provide on business outcomes. That concept seems more easily applied to front-line and customer-facing applications, like customer relationship management, decision support and Web servers that…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDS, Hierarchical Storage Management, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, ILM, Information Lifecycle Management, NAND, NVM, performance, SSD, Virtual machine
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Can All-Flash Eliminate IT Silos?
In a recent customer profile “All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study” Storage Switzerland did an extensive interview with CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments, systems processing, and data analytics. During that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2
Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014
2014 was a big year at StorageSwiss.com. Thanks to our readers we saw record traffic to the site. As we close out each year, it’s interesting to review the top-read articles. In 2014’s list you’ll see two common themes, flash…
Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Flash Array, Multi-Tenant, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth
Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Webinar – Hyper-scale Nightmare -The Potential Consequences of using Consumer-grade Flash in the Data Center
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…
All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study
Executive Summary When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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Analyst Blog: What are Converged Infrastructures? Part 1 – Hardware Convergence
Every so often it makes sense to take a step back and attempt to define the terms that we in the industry use to describe the approaches we take to solving customer problems. One of those is “converged architectures”. When…
Tagged with: Converged Infrastructure, Convergence, Flash, Hyper-converged, Integration, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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OCZ’s Affordable, Enterprise-grade SSDs for Hyper-scale Cloud Data Centers
Flash memory is delivering higher storage performance for numerous data center applications and server-side flash puts it directly where those applications live – on the host itself. Flash based storage products, which include enterprise-grade SATA SSDs, are ideal for use…
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