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OCZ Z-Drive 4500 Enterprise PCIe SSD

OCZ recently released the latest generation of their Z-Drive PCIe flash SSD. This product builds on the Z-Drive R4’s performance and virtualization technology by adding new form factors and improving drive management. OCZ has also improved drive robustness and stability

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How To Improve Bare Metal Server Performance – Podcast

Think Flash can help improve performance in the Data Center? Think it will only work in a Flash-based server? Think again. To talk about how Flash can help your overall performance, I sat down with Rich Petersen from SanDisk and Eric

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What’s causing your virtualization problem?

– hint: your non-virtualized servers Watch Our Webinar on Demand “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash“ We all know about the challenges with server virtualization. The highly random workloads that hypervisors create can cause fits for the shared storage

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Webinar – Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash

Watch the webinar On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” and get an exclusive white paper. Flash Solid State Disks (SSD) installed inside a server have become the first stop for data center managers looking to solve

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All-In-One Flash Management

First there was server sprawl, then there was storage sprawl and now it’s “performance sprawl”. Performance sprawl occurs when there are multiple pools of flash storage spread out across the data center. For example, many organizations have flash resources inside

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How to Properly Deploy Flash: Webinar Preview – Podcast

Flash is more than just fast storage. Intel’s Andrew Flint and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan join us on The Storage Podcast to talk about how flash can fit into the data center if used correctly in the right

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The Facts of Flash – Podcast

There are a lot of questions about Flash. Do I need it? Where should I put it? How do I use it? How much should I get? Load DynamiX VP of Marketing Len Rosenthal joins George and me on the

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ChalkTalk Video – Does VDI Need Dedicated Storage?

Webinar: “Avoid the Waste of a VDI-only Storage Solution” – Available on Demand – includes exclusive VDI vs. Storage White Paper – WATCH NOW In this chalk talk video George Crump from Storage Switzerland discusses the trend towards using dedicated

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Choosing The Right Flash Storage Architecture For Virtual Data Centers

When effectively implemented, flash storage technologies can help remedy storage IO contention issues and deliver a performance benefit to virtualized applications. It is important, however, for IT planners to find ways of augmenting virtual machine (VM) performance without discarding their

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Webinar – Stopping Performance Sprawl – How To Develop A Single Point of Performance Management

Watch Our On Demand Webinar “Stopping Performance Sprawl – Develop A Single Point of Performance Management” Flash is the performance go to option for an increasing number of data centers. Flash first took hold in server-side implementations like caching. This

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