Broadcom Briefing Note No matter how fast the storage infrastructure is, IT professionals can count on users and application owners to want more. Flash storage goes a long way toward appeasing the appetite for performance. But it is the constant…
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Faster Flash with NVMe Over Fabrics
Tagged with: AFA, Broadcom, Fibre Channel, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, NVMe, performance, SCSI, SSD
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Are the Hardware Requirements of Your NoSQL Database Killing Your Budget?
When SSD isn’t fast enough for you, the rules have changed. Databases have always wanted more memory, but the demands of applications like Cassandra and Couchbase take this to a new level. The demands of NoSQL databases like Cassandra and…
The Need for Speed – High Performance Object Storage
Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher…
Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Nexenta, Object Storage, Replication, SSD
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SlideShare: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
Heterogeneous Storage Analytics Difficult to Gather
Knowledge is power. But knowledge in a heterogeneous storage environment can be difficult to come by. Modern data centers often have a mix of software-defined storage, traditional proprietary storage, all-flash or hybrid storage arrays, and even cloud storage – all…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, FalconStor, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, SSD, Virtualization
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StorageShort: The Challenges of the Private Cloud
A private cloud should be the ultimate goal of the software defined data center (SDC). It transforms the data center into a self-provisioned, highly automated organism, that is more responsive to the needs of the organization while driving down the…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Consolidation, Flash, Software Defined, SSD, Tegile, VMware
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Flash is not Wine
Flash is the go-to performance option when IT professionals face a storage performance challenge. The problem is that the price of flash is still at a premium versus what you can buy traditional hard disk technology for. And the reality…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Flash, Flash-as-a-Service, Hybrid, performance, SSD, Tegile
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EMC World 2016 – EMC’s All-Flash Unity
EMC chose their annual user conference, EMC World 2016 as EMC’s coming out party for a new storage offering: Unity. While all the marketing around Unity focuses on an $18,000 all-flash configuration it is a hybrid solution available in hard…
A Fresh Take on SDS – Quobyte Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions are a dime a dozen. The problem is that only a few solutions truly differentiate themselves from the features that come with the legacy storage hardware systems they are replacing. The key value to SDS…
Webinar: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
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