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Solving the concerns of NOT going All-Flash – Podcast

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hard Drive, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Protection, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Podcast

ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays

Posted on November 13, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Storage, Tegile
Posted in Video

Dell World 2014 – Michael Dell’s opening Press Conference

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

It’s been a year since Dell became a private company. At his opening press conference at Dell World 2014 Michael Dell sounded like a CEO who likes coming to work every day, no longer subjected to Wall Street’s fixation over…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Converge, DAS, Dell, Dell World, Disk array, Hybrid, ISCSI, Software Defined
Posted in Blog

Dell World 2014 Announcements: Low-cost all-flash array, Nutanix converged solution, EqualLogic hardware refresh

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Dell is announcing the “most attractively priced, entry-level all-flash array in the industry”, according to Executive Director of Product Management for Storage, Travis Vigil. The SC4020, at $25,000 for a 6 x 480GB SSD configuration, brings high-performance storage to the…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Converge, Dell, Dell World, EqualLogic, Hybrid, Nutanix, SSD
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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…

Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
Posted in Video

The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
Posted in Video

VMworld After Hours: Tegile Party

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Next up for Storage Switzerland was the Tegile “No Compromise” party. We grabbed Rob Commins, who was in studio earlier in the day, and David Bangs, Tegile’s new VP of Sales. More on Tegile Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach…

Tagged with: AfterHours, All-Flash, Hybrid, Tegile, VMworld
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Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
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Dell – Delivering Flash the way customers want

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

Flash consumption by the enterprise data center is typically done as a response to a specific performance problem. The flash purchase that often results are typically either an all-new flash array or it is added to an existing array. The…

Tagged with: Compellent, Data migration, Dell, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, SLC
Posted in Briefing Note

Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 7, 2014 by George Crump

Hybrid arrays vendors were out to get some respect at the Flash Memory Summit. Tegile was one of them, but their approach to hybrid systems has a distinctive all-flash feel. Their recently announced T3800 is an all-flash array that can…