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Storage Sprawl – How Flash Let Us Down

As we discussed in our last column “Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?”, toward the end of the last decade (2007-2010) the data center began to tap into the abundance of compute power available to it but providing

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Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?

Once thought eliminated through storage networking via storage consolidation, storage hardware sprawl is worse than ever. As we discussed in our  webinar, “How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl“, there are several reasons for this. First, there are more workload types

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On Demand Webinar – How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl

Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. Even in the so-called shared storage environment,

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Webinar – The Challenges With Server-Side SSD Caching in VMware Environments

VMware creates a storage performance challenge for almost any data center that has implemented virtualization. No matter the size of the environment, the fundamental issue is dealing with highly randomized storage I/O. The theoretical quick fix has been to embrace

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