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Storage Q&A: What Flash is best for VDI?
Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up on a webinar entitled What’s best for VDI: Hybrid or All-Flash Storage. Participants in the live event were able to ask questions to Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Chris Tsilipounidakis from Tegile Systems. Here…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, SSD, Tegile, VDI, Virtual machine
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
What is Shadow IT? – and why you should care
“Shadow IT” is a name for the process that occurs when users self-select IT services, signing up for cloud-based services without the knowledge or approval of the IT organization. IT could take the attitude that Shadow IT is a good…
StorageShort: Cost Justify Flash for VDI in 52 Seconds
In this StorageShort George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland discusses one of the best ways to cost justify flash for virtual desktop infrastructures; use the flash array for more than just VDI. Some all-flash and hybrid systems deliver enough…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VDI, VM
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Podcast: What’s the biggest VDI Storage Challenge? – All of Them!
In a recent Storage Switzerland webinar on solving VDI storage challenge, we asked attendees what their biggest VDI storage challenge was. The choices were; reducing cost, improving performance, meeting capacity demands, stopping storage sprawl, or all of the above. The…
SlideShare: What’s best for VDI Hybrid or All-Flash Storage
The top concern for IT planners looking to implement or expand the use of their VDI investment is storage performance. This is because every step that is taken to drive down cost per desktop, or improve the user experience, impacts…
It’s time to “VMware” Storage
Before hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM came to market, data centers had few options when it came to managing the growth of their server infrastructure. They could buy one big server that ran multiple applications, which, while it simplified…
Tagged with: Data Mobility, Hypervisors, Internet of Things, ioFABRIC, QOS, Quality of service, Unstructured data, VDI
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
StorageShort: All-Flash Arrays vs. cost per Desktop
One of the keys to success in VDI is all about getting user acceptance. A simple way to gain this acceptance is to implement an all-flash array. The problem is that the cost of an all-flash array can be at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Tegile, VDI
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
Making Cents of Flash for VDI
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
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