Flash is the cure for almost all storage performance problems and can make a difference a variety of workloads. Tier 1 OLTP applications are an obvious use case for flash as is Tier 2 VMware environments and even Tier 3…
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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MeetTheCEO: Hedvig’s Avinash Lakshman Brings Distributed Systems Approach to Storage
A key designer of the infrastructures of Amazon and Facebook, Hedvig’s CEO, Avinash Lakshman brings a distributed systems approach to storage. Hedvig is a storage software company that delivers a highly distributed platform which is designed to run on off…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Hedvig, Infrastructure, MeetTheCEO, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl
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Briefing Note: Hedvig brings Software Defined Storage into focus
Software Defined Storage (SDS) may still be a fuzzy concept in the average data center but its promised deliverables are in clear focus. Data center managers are looking for ways to rapidly improve storage provisioning times while increasing overall flexibility.…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Infrastructure, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Understanding All-Flash Architectures – Assessing the right fit for your Data Center and Workloads
Today in the all-flash array market there are two architectures for data centers to choose from; scale out and scale up. Both have their unique strengths and weaknesses. Deciding on the right architecture for an organization’s data center first depends…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architectures, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Encryption, I/O, IOPS, Scale Up, SLA, Snapshots, Sprawl, Thin provisioning
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Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl
Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
All-In-One Flash Management
First there was server sprawl, then there was storage sprawl and now it’s “performance sprawl”. Performance sprawl occurs when there are multiple pools of flash storage spread out across the data center. For example, many organizations have flash resources inside…
Using Server-Side Caching As A Single Point of Performance Management
Register for Our Live webinar event “Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl” Deploying server-side cache is an effective way to accelerate application workloads; whether they are hosted on bare metal servers or virtualized infrastructure. But with so many flash and SSD options…
Webinar – Stopping Performance Sprawl – How To Develop A Single Point of Performance Management
Watch Our On Demand Webinar “Stopping Performance Sprawl – Develop A Single Point of Performance Management” Flash is the performance go to option for an increasing number of data centers. Flash first took hold in server-side implementations like caching. This…
Video – How to Stop Performance Sprawl
In our recent webinar, How to Stop Hardware Sprawl, we found that users are having a lot of problems handling performance. And performance is generating much of the hardware sprawl problem. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump addresses Performance Sprawl…
Tagged with: Coho Data, Data center, Data Center Sprawl, Enterprise storage, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Network-attached storage, Sprawl, Storage Hardware Sprawl
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