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Webinar: How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array

One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price

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The All-Flash Data Center: Myth or Reality? – Podcast

We’ve heard about the possibility of an all-flash data center for a long time. But is it possible? Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and Tegile Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat join me on the podcast to preview an webinar

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Do Hard Drives have a place in the All-Flash Data Center?

When a data center makes the jump to all-flash arrays the impact is dramatic. Applications respond quick and IT operations become simpler as administrators stop spending hours squeezing performance out of hard disk bound systems. This means it’s “game on”

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Webinar: Is The All-Flash Data Center Myth or Reality?

It has been said that if you could afford to build an All-Flash data center, you would. But can we really create the All-Flash data center? Join experts from Storage Switzerland and Tegile as we discuss whether or not the

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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

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XtremIO update at Flash Memory Summit

One of the headlines at this years Flash Memory Summit was the much broader participation  of the traditional storage vendors. Dell, IBM, Hitachi and HP were all there. Not to be left out, EMC also had a presence and we

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Adding Deduplication and Compression without impacting performance

IT professionals expect a lot from their storage systems; they want volume management, thin provisioning, snapshot, clones, automated tiering, replication etc. Increasingly today, they want deduplication and compression as well, so they can squeeze every ounce of capacity out of

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Not your father’s Compression – Permabit delivers HIOPS Compression

Compression has been available in one form or another for decades, but most of the time compression is applied as data is moving off of primary storage. For example, most backup software or hardware compresses data as it moves into

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The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use

It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure  these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to

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What’s Holding Back the All-flash Data Center?

Flash has certainly become more affordable over the past several years and we continue to see more and more storage products introduced that include flash in one form or another. But most flash implementations are hybrid in nature, requiring that

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