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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR

Posted on March 17, 2015 by George Crump

As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Drobo doubles down on SMB Data Centers

Posted on March 16, 2015 by George Crump

It’s been almost two years since Connected Data, the makers of the Transporter, acquired Drobo. In that time there has been some concern over the future of the Drobo product family. For the most part those concerns were ill founded.…

Tagged with: Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, mSATA, Reclamation, Shared, SSD, Thin provisioning, Veeam
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VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?

Posted on March 16, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Briefing Note: X-IO Enters March like a Lion – No Lamb in sight

Posted on March 13, 2015 by George Crump

The storage market is as competitive as ever, so vendors need to keep delivering the features that data centers require to meet the ever-increasing demands for performance and capacity. But through the feature war, IT professionals would be wise to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined, Thin provisioning, X-IO
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Making Cents of Flash for VDI

Posted on March 12, 2015 by George Crump

There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Flash, Hybrid, I/O, Infrastructure, Latency, SSD, Webinar
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Solving the Big Three VDI Storage problems

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have the potential of reducing the cost to deploy and support an organization’s desktops and laptops. But VDI presents three big problems to the storage infrastructure; assuring the proper use of flash, the proper placement of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Briefing Note: CTERA’s Cloud Data Services Platform Transforms SMB and ROBO IT Service Delivery

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Eric Slack

New cloud technologies and their associated economics have created both opportunities and challenges as organizations wrestle with how to govern, optimize and automate the delivery of IT services. IT managers are seeking new ways to deliver these services from within…

Tagged with: Briefing, Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Flash, FS&S, Gateway, Hybrid, IT-as-a-Service, ITaaS
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Webinar: What’s best for VDI Hybrid or All-Flash Storage

Posted on February 23, 2015 by George Crump

The top concern for IT planners looking to implement or expand the use of their VDI investment is storage performance. This is because every step that is taken to drive down cost per desktop, or improve the user experience, impacts…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Cloud in your Business – Where to Start

Posted on February 20, 2015 by George Crump

When presented with all the potential capabilities of the cloud, almost any IT professional can be overwhelmed, especially when all the potential risks are factored into its use. At times like these it is best to simply take a step…

Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Data Protection, File server, file sync and share, Hybrid, Nasuni
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