For as long as there has been data there has been a quest to consolidate that data onto a single, consolidated storage system, but that quest seems to never be satisfied. The problem is that there are essentially two types…
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Flash + Object – The Emergence of a Two Tier Enterprise
Tagged with: Archive, Cloudian, Flash, Flash Array, Internet of Things, IOPS, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Snapshot, VM
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Storage Q&A: What Flash is best for VDI?
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…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, SSD, Tegile, VDI, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT
Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-converged, IOPS, Riverbed, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Flash Strategies for MS-SQL
Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Flash, Hybrid array, IOPS, MS-SQL, Server-side, Tegile
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS
Scale-out storage has a fundamental weakness, according to startup Qumulo, it can grow easily but also increases data management requirements as it does capacity. This means that as storage systems grow they get less efficient and more expensive to run,…
Tagged with: Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Object, performance, Qumulo, Scale-Out, SSD
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Briefing Note: Physical Servers Matter – Diskeeper keeps them running like new
While the move to a virtualized data center continues, physical servers still matter! Its true that many organizations are now approaching 60%+ virtualization, few have reached 100%. That means that most data centers are still 40% physical. Those remaining physical…
VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?
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…
Five Reasons to run MS-SQL on All-Flash
Applications are often the key service that data centers provide to their organizations. The speed at which these applications can respond to the user’s requests is often THE measurement of how IT is perceived by the organization. As a result…
What are IOPS and should you care?
When evaluating a new storage system, especially an all-flash array, the number of IOPS (Inputs/Outputs per Second) that the storage system can sustain is often used to differentiate one storage system from another. But is this really a standard that…
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