QoS (Quality of Service) is a topic that’s becoming more common in storage discussions, partly due to the rise of multi-tenant environments like public clouds. QoS puts management controls on storage resources, especially processing power, so they can maintain performance…
VVols simplifies the process of setting up and managing storage to support VMs by enabling VMware administrators and users to create specific storage policies. But under the covers VMware leaves the implementation of VVols to the storage array vendor. In…
Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up on a webinar entitled What’s best for VDI: Hybrid or All-Flash Storage. Participants in the live event were able to ask questions to Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Chris Tsilipounidakis from Tegile Systems. Here…
With vSphere 6, VMware is set to address one of the biggest storage management problems facing the virtualized environment, associating virtual machines (VMs) with the storage they are using. VVOLs provide that visibility and allow storage and server administration to…
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…
When MS-SQL hits the performance wall, flash storage has become the “go to” problem solver. The high performance and low latency of the technology can eliminate many of the storage performance issues that a MS-SQL environment may face. But IT…
When IT professionals need to boost performance, they turn to flash based storage solutions. This is especially true for MS-SQL environments where the payoff for flash use can be substantial in terms of performance gain. The high IOPS and low…
There are a lot of options for MS-SQL administrators looking to improve storage performance and most of them feature flash. Recently I sat down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sumeet Bansal – Senior Solutions Architect, Databases…
In this StorageShort George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland discusses one of the best ways to cost justify flash for virtual desktop infrastructures; use the flash array for more than just VDI. Some all-flash and hybrid systems deliver enough…
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