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Does NVMe Flash Have to Be End-to-End

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

One of the advantages of the NVMe Flash standard is that it is networkable. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMf) brings direct attach storage like latency to shared storage systems. NVMf eliminates the need for modern applications like Hadoop and others to…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HBA, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMf, Replication, SAN, Snapshots, Western Digital
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What’s Hot in Storage in 2019 – Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Posted on January 7, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) leverages virtualization to converge three common data center tiers; computing, networking, and storage, into a single tier. It promises to simplify operation and ease expansion while also lowering material costs. A key component is the storage software…

Tagged with: HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, NVMe, SDN, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: Myth Busting – The Four NVMe Myths

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

NVMe enables storage system vendors to once again raise expectations on the performance capabilities of all-flash arrays. NVMe provides a higher command count, greater queue depth and leverages the PCIe interface to deliver a significant increase in IOPS potential with…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Potential NVMe Pitfalls and What to Look For in 2019

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Krista Macomber

As 2019 approaches, the storage industry is buzzing about non-volatile memory express (NVMe). This new protocol and interface for flash storage stands to bring substantial value to a range of applications and workloads. NVMe is emerging as a key tool…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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SlideShare: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?

Posted on December 21, 2018 by George Crump

The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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Is Your All-Flash Storage Software Block Only?

Posted on December 20, 2018 by George Crump

Accelerating database performance remains a top use case for all-flash arrays, so it makes sense that most all-flash array systems only support block storage. However, only supporting block means that the customer assigns the “raw” volume to a server and…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Do You Have an NVMe Strategy?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by George Crump

NVMe has been in the market for over a year and is living up to its promise to offer game-changing performance. Most vendors have NVMe products available. Traditional vendors are adding NVMe to their existing storage systems as well as…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SSD, Western Digital
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Does Your All-Flash Array Support Hard Disk Drives?

Posted on December 6, 2018 by George Crump

Technically, if an All-Flash Array (AFA) supports hard disk drives, it is no longer an AFA. What if however, the system could start as an AFA and then later, to save costs, move older data to inexpensive, high capacity hard…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Busting the NVMe Flash Myths

Posted on December 5, 2018 by George Crump

NVMe is the next wave of all-flash systems coming to market. These systems are fast, dense and scalable. They promise to fundamentally change the way IT designs storage architectures in support of existing applications, and they open up new possibilities…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NFS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SMB, Tegile, VMware, Western Digital
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Does Your All-Flash Software Provide Data Protection?

Posted on November 29, 2018 by George Crump

Most primary storage systems and software provide some form of data protection. That protection comes in the form of protection from media failure (typically RAID), snapshots and clones. All-Flash Arrays (AFA) seem to provide a better than average level of…