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Healthcare Provider leverages All-Flash to Power VDI and Improve Patient Care

VDI projects are some of the most challenging and demanding infrastructure projects today; especially on the storage system. Meeting VDI storage performance demands are particularly critical for healthcare organizations because if a doctor or nurse is waiting on IT infrastructure to do their job that also means that a patient is waiting, one that might need critical care. In this case study we speak with a large healthcare provider that is leveraging All-Flash to meet the demands of VDI in Healthcare.

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Webinar: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems

The goal of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is to lower the operational costs of supporting an organization’s desktops and laptops. A VDI project should make it easier for IT to support users, keep the organization safe from viruses and better

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What are Workloads and why you should care

Data Centers are under increasing pressure to build infrastructures that are responsive to the application workloads of the organization. Understanding what a workload is and what its characteristics are is critical to creating a responsive infrastructure that can satisfy the

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The Hardware Requirements for Software Defined Storage

The two key benefits of Software Defined Storage (SDS) are increased flexibility and improved storage economics. Ironically, for organizations that standardize on a SDS solution, their flexibility and cost savings are restricted by storage hardware, which of course is still

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ChalkTalk Video: Eliminating Flash Sprawl

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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MeetTheCEO: Infinio’s Arun Agarwal

Infinio CEO Arun Agarwal sits down with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about Infinio and how he’s trained his entire work life to run a start-up technology company. Infinio brings to market a fundamentally new architecture to

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Briefing Note: Panzura SkyBridge solves VDI Storage Challenge

In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,

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The Storage Challenges of Desktop as a Service

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able

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Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?

Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there

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Briefing Note: Performance Testing gets closer to the Real World

When IT professionals look to solve a storage performance or capacity problem the number of options available to them can almost be overwhelming. Trying to select the right solution to their particular problem seems almost impossible. They simply don’t have

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