Flash is the go-to performance option when IT professionals face a storage performance challenge. The problem is that the price of flash is still at a premium versus what you can buy traditional hard disk technology for. And the reality…
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Flash is not Wine
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Flash, Flash-as-a-Service, Hybrid, performance, SSD, Tegile
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Re-Thinking Scale-Out Storage
Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, performance, Scale-Out, Tintri, VM
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MeetTheCEO: ClearSky Data’s Ellen Rubin
ClearSky’s Ellen Rubin is the co-founder and CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ellen discusses how ClearSky’s global storage network simplifies the entire data lifecycle and delivers enterprise storage as a fully managed…
MeetTheCEO: Avere Systems’ Ron Bianchini
Avere’s Ron Bianchini is the CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ron discusses how Avere gives organizations the ability to put an end to the rising cost and complexity of data storage, the…
Moving Beyond the Flash Storage Basics
Most vendors, when they talk to a IT professional about flash storage, still focus on two factors. First, it is fast and second, it is now affordable. Here is a heads up to flash to the vendor community…IT gets it.…
Overcoming the All-Flash Array Mentality to VDI
When it comes to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects, all-flash arrays are quickly moving from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” component of the project. The all-flash required phenomenon is driven partly by users, but largely by…
SimpliVity – Stepping up to the Hyperconverged Challenge
This week Storage Switzerland attended SimpliVity’s first analyst and influencer day. The event provided the company with a chance to impress the press and analysts on the capabilities of the product, gave a glimpse into upcoming capabilities, and provided a…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, performance, SimpliVity
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The Problems with VMware Snapshots
There are generally three ways we create snapshots in this world: copy-on-write, redirect-on-write, and VMware’s way. As a result, you should delete VMware snapshots as soon as possible – preferably within a few minutes of their creation. A previous post…
Snapshot 101: Copy-on-write vs Redirect-on-write
There are two very different ways to create snapshots: copy-on-write and redirect-on-write. If IT is considering using the snapshot functionality of their storage system, it is essential to understand which type of snapshot it creates and the pros and cons…
Webinar: Getting Beyond Flash 101 – Flash 102 Selecting the Right Flash Array
IT professionals are convinced: Flash is the key to solving their storage performance challenges. The next step is selecting what flash makes the most sense for their organization’s specific needs. Do they need maxed-out flash performance for a highly transactional…
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