Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Traditional databases, like Oracle and MS-SQL, have been around for decades. But thanks to the emerging mega trends of big data, big users and cloud computing, a new class of database is starting to work its way into the enterprise:…
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents some real challenges for companies looking to replace their inventories of desktop PCs. It has to provide a desktop experience that’s acceptable to users and an infrastructure that costs the same or less than the…
Flash is replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more environments, and not just as boot drives for PCs and laptops. Enterprises are turning to a new class of high performance SATA-based drive form-factor SSDs to accelerate databases, push…
Flash can improve the performance of almost anything that it’s placed into, be it a laptop, a desktop, a server or a storage system. But to derive maximum benefit from a flash investment requires first that the combined workloads be…
Flash has been making its way into data centers primarily as an accelerant to existing workloads. Most of that adoption has been in the form of a hybrid use case, the combination of flash and hard disk drives. As we…
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Enterprise data centers are looking longingly at web-scale cloud providers. They envy the cloud providers’ ability to scale rapidly so they can meet performance and capacity demands. They also envy the cloud providers’ cost effectiveness of the designs. In this…
VDI can be one of the toughest projects an IT organization has to implement, due in a large part to the expectations of the groups involved. Replacing PCs with virtual desktops creates expectations with users that have to get their…
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