In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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Tegile Provides More Flash Options
Tegile recently announced two new members of its product family and an update to its software that promises to get more data centers taking their first significant flash step. This announcement addresses two challenges head-on that Storage Switzerland sees facing…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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OCZ’s Saber 1000 Flash Drives Fill the Gap between Client and Enterprise SSDs
Hyper-scale deployments, common in cloud environments, can have hundreds of rack-mounted servers running content-based applications, such as media streaming, video on demand or web services. These mostly read-intensive workloads require the strong storage performance of server-side flash, but hyper-scale infrastructures…
Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, SATA, SSD
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Solving the concerns of NOT going All-Flash – Podcast
Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up for a webinar on the four things you can do to a Hybrid Array to achieve All-Flash performance. Joining me in the podcast talk about webinar attendee concerns about a hybrid flash are George Crump…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hard Drive, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Protection, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays
Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array. Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Storage, Tegile
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A Hybrid NAS for Unstructured Data
There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.
Tagged with: CIFS, Crossroads, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid NAS, NAS, NFS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?
Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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Michael Dell’s Keynote – A new company and new products – Dell World 2014
During Michael Dell’s keynote presentation at Dell World 2014 the CEO emphasized the company’s renewed customer focus and how they’re leveraging the 2 billion customer conversations they have every year. He didn’t go into how this number was calculated but…
Tagged with: Compellent, DAS, Dell, Dell World, EqualLogic, Flash, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, ISCSI, Nutanix, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Web-scale
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Micron: Server-side Flash Solutions make the Enterprise run better
According to Micron, bacon makes everything taste better and Micron SSDs make everything in the enterprise run better. Their line of server-side flash solutions includes client SATA drives, enterprise SATA drives like the M500DC, which was covered on StorageSwiss.com, to PCIe flash…
Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”
Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…
Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
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