Deduplication is the key to all flash adoption but as Storage Switzerland pointed out in its recent article “What to Look For in All-Flash Deduplication” each vendor’s implementation is different and IT Planners should not consider all deduplication to be…
High Performance Computing (HPC) is a unique environment that places special demands on the storage infrastructure. These environments typically have dozens, if not hundreds, of compute nodes, each generating a unique sequential workflow that randomizes when it hits the shared…
In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…
When an organization decides to move some or all of its applications out of its data center and into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the key decisions is how they will store and access data. While Amazon’s Elastic…
Emulex Survey Shows Rapid Gen 5 Adoption When it comes to storage networking, iSCSI, NAS and even InfiniBand have all raised their hands as potential challengers to Fibre Channel (FC). It would seem, however, that the veteran of storage protocols…
At Storage Networking World (SNW) this year in Long Beach, CA, Storage Switzerland caught up with Storage Networking Industry Assn (SNIA) officers Wayne Adams and Molly Rector, to talk about what the organization has been doing recently and where things…
Interest in All-Flash storage systems is on the rise from the investment community and it is certainly attracting the interest of IT planners looking to create more scalable database environments and more densely populated virtual infrastructures. All-Flash systems enable scale,…
In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…
Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…
As business data continues its relentless migration to the cloud, providers of cloud hosted environments and applications are creating the perfect storm for their legacy storage systems, a storm that will break the ‘cloud promise’. These environments require high scalability,…
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