In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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OCZ’s Saber 1000 Flash Drives Fill the Gap between Client and Enterprise SSDs
Hyper-scale deployments, common in cloud environments, can have hundreds of rack-mounted servers running content-based applications, such as media streaming, video on demand or web services. These mostly read-intensive workloads require the strong storage performance of server-side flash, but hyper-scale infrastructures…
Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, SATA, SSD
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ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays
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
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Dell World Solutions Expo – SMB Hybrid Arrays and Dell-Nutanix
At Dell World 2014 we spent quite a bit of time on the solutions expo floor interviewing Dell product specialists and getting up close with the hardware. In this video we discuss the new PS4210 which provides affordable high performance…
Tagged with: Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Hybrid array, Nutanix, performance, SMB
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What is Copy Data?
Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Why users hate VDI – and why that’s a problem
VDI makes sense, at least from IT’s perspective. It can provide some cost savings in hardware and software, can improve operational efficiency and deliver better control over the company’s data. For these reasons the IT manager and the CIO love…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Cache, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, performance, Persistence, Server Side Flash, SSD, VDI, Virtual desktop
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What to look for in an All-Flash System
Initially, IT organizations often deploy an all-flash storage system to solve a performance problem for a specific application workload. Then, unfortunately, they become a victim of their own success. Often the initial experience with flash is so good that the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, CPU, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, performance, Scale-Out
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The three Ps to a successful VDI deployment – Persistence, Price, Performance
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises to reduce IT operational costs, improve endpoint data protection and increase endpoint usability. But for a VDI deployment to be successful, it must provide the user an experience that is better than the physical desktop…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Cache, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, performance, Persistence, Price, Server Side Flash, SSD, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Why HGST is now building Storage Systems
Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…
You can do better than ioMeter and Vdbench
Storage professionals need a way to test and validate that new or proposed storage architectures will perform well in their application environments. Common storage testing “solutions” like ioMeter and Vdbench, however, aren’t going to cut it. While these tools enable…
Tagged with: Architecture, Automated Performance, Critical Application, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance, ROI, Scale, Storage, TCO
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