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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

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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

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Dell World Solutions Expo – SMB Hybrid Arrays and Dell-Nutanix

At Dell World 2014 we spent quite a bit of time on the solutions expo floor interviewing Dell product specialists and getting up close with the hardware. In this video we discuss the new PS4210 which provides affordable high performance

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The four steps to Predictable Hybrid Array Performance

Hybrid All-Flash Arrays drive down cost by mixing high performance flash with cost effective hard disk drives (HDD). Establishing predictable performance is the chief concern for Hybrid Array buyers. As long as data is being accessed from the flash tier,

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Webinar: How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array

One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price

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NetApp Flash Portfolio Analysis

Legacy storage vendors have faced a unique challenge as they tried to address the emerging flash opportunity. Unlike startups that could essentially start with a “blank sheet of paper”, these vendors had existing customers to care for. Their first mission

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Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World

As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As

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The All-Flash Exit is Spelled IPO

Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit and today the focus is on solid state storage. The first part of the day was focused on the state of the storage industry, started by a presentation

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Which Is The Right Way To Implement Flash Storage?

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, we polled our audience about how they were currently using caching technology in their environment. A significant percentage of respondents replied that they were using caching directly on their server infrastructure. This is not

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EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper

Next up at Storage Switzerland’s EMC Briefing Day was the Midrange part of EMC’s Enterprise & Midrange Storage Division, also known as the VNX family; and of course we are going to talk about the VNX2. The EMC VNX2 is

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