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Flash Showdown – Which Flash is best for MS-SQL, Server or Shared?

Posted on May 22, 2015 by George Crump

In our on-demand webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?” one of the polling questions delivered a surprising result; 67% of respondents that were using flash to accelerate MS-SQL, were using flash inside of the server, instead of shared flash on the…

Overcoming The Flash Storage Latency Challenge

Posted on December 17, 2013 by George Crump

The removal of latency is a critical part to delivering more fully on the flash performance promise. No matter how fast the flash technology becomes, the latency of its connection to the CPU is a key stumbling block in achieving…

Is All Thin Provisioning The Same?

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Thin provisioning is a storage allocation process that improves the write efficiency of a storage system by enabling it to consume less capacity for storing a given amount of data. It is becoming an increasingly popular, almost commonplace, feature available…