All-Flash Array Vendors are now releasing systems with 3D TLC SSDs. They claim that they have reached price parity, without data efficiency, to mainstream data center hard disk arrays. 3D TLC NAND does bring the price per GB of flash…
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Making All-Flash 3D TLC SSD Arrays Enterprise Ready
Tagged with: 3D NAND, AFA, All-Flash Array, Flash, HDD, MLC, Over-provisioning, SSD, TLC
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The Future of Flash Storage – Part 1 – The Future of Hybrid Storage
Flash storage is making an enormous impact on the data center. Armed with a flash storage system, IT professionals are creating virtual environments with much higher VM to host ratios and are designing databases to support many more users and…
All-Flash Overkill for VDI?
Many vendors present all-flash arrays (AFA) as the cure-all for virtual desktop infrastructures. Indeed, AFAs can dramatically increase the number of virtual desktops that an infrastructure can support. AFAs also eliminate almost all performance problems; users love their lightning fast…
Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Cloudistics, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, SSD, VDI
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SlideShare: Solving VMware Performance Problems with Flash
There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump…
StorageShort: Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes
What is Your Rake Moment? There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a…
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
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Multi-Tenant Docker Storage Containers
Briefing Note: Zadara Storage Corporate IT is transitioning to an “As a Service” model. That is because the as a service model is not just isolated to the cloud – there are plenty of on-premises service use cases as well.…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, Flash, Multi-Tenant, QOS, SSD, Zadara
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StorageShort: The Impact of Virtualization Intensity on Storage
From the moment that VMware started to move into production, it has strained the storage infrastructure. The impact of running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the same server at the same time pushed traditional disk-based storage systems to their breaking…
The StorageSwiss Top 25 for 2015
In terms of visitors, 2015 was a record year for StorageSwiss.com, and at the end of each year we take a look at the top 25 read articles as indicated by our analytics. Our top 25 list is taken from…
Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million
Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…
Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash Array, Flash, NetApp, Next Generation, performance, SolidFire, SSD
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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