Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…
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StorageShort: Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes
What is Your Rake Moment? There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a…
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Hybrid Flash Array Enables Local Government to Answer the Storage Performance Call
When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators like Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and he was having those “calls” come in too often. A…
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
Hardware First – Designing All-Flash Arrays From a Hardware First Perspective
Data centers have to meet the increasing performance demands of scale out databases, big data analytics, and dense virtual environments. These data centers need to meet these demands without requiring more data center floor space or consuming more power. All-flash…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Backup, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
What is NVMe? And what does it mean for PCIe-SSD?
There are two constants in data center storage; the need for greater performance and the need for greater capacity. Flash based storage devices have become the go-to option to address the first challenge. But application owners and users quickly move…
The Anatomy of a Consolidated Storage System
It has long been a goal of IT professionals to consolidate the storage infrastructure to a single storage system that would meet both the performance and long-term capacity needs of the data center. This goal however has proven to be…
Tagged with: Cache, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, RAID, RAM
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Not a One Trick, Hyper-Converged Pony
HP StoreVirtual Briefing Note HP’s journey to hyper-convergence started in Colorado when they purchased LeftHand Networks. The LeftHand Networks solution was one of the first software-based storage solutions and one of the first scale-out storage solutions. It also happened to…
Tagged with: Data Replication, Flash, HDD, HP, Hyper-convergence, LeftHand, Scale-Out, Snapshot, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Hard Disk Autopsy
The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
A Platform for Software Defined Storage
Flash Memory Summit Briefing: SavageIO’s Open Storage Platform Software Defined Storage (SDS) has a problem, it still requires hardware. This hardware requirement is a problem because most of the storage systems that a customer would purchase to go with their…
Tagged with: flash memory summit, HDD, PCIe, SAS, SavageIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Refreshing to an All-Flash Array
Every few years the time comes to update and refresh a data centers storage infrastructure. As part of this process many are considering all-flash arrays (AFAs). Vendors have flooded the market with AFA products, and for the IT professional sorting…
Tagged with: Acquisition, AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, FalconStor, FC, HDD, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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