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Ready for an All-Flash Comeback – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on December 7, 2017 by George Crump

Violin Systems was one of the first storage vendors to bring an all-flash storage system to market. While the company had early success in the market, a combination of fierce competition and poor management decisions lead to the company filing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, IOPS, Latency, NVMf, Replication, Scale, Snapshots, SSD, Violin Memory
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Hardware Matters More Than Ever

Posted on August 9, 2016 by George Crump

Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…

Hardware First – Designing All-Flash Arrays From a Hardware First Perspective

Posted on October 29, 2015 by George Crump

Data centers have to meet the increasing performance demands of scale out databases, big data analytics, and dense virtual environments. These data centers need to meet these demands without requiring more data center floor space or consuming more power. All-flash…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Backup, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
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The Hard Disk Autopsy

Posted on August 26, 2015 by George Crump

The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
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Weekly Storage Podcast: Storage Industry Quarterly Reports

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. That’s the best way to describe the latest round of quarterly reports coming from businesses in the Storage Industry. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump, Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the…

Tagged with: Amazon Web Services, Commvault, EMC, HP, IBM, Micron, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Podcast, Quantum, SanDisk, SimpliVity, Symantec, Violin Memory
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Storage News and Insights Feb. 21 – Podcast

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

From Software Defined Storage news to insights on file, sync and share, George Crump and I talk about it in this week’s update on the Storage Podcast. Links to blogs to give you more detail on the topics we talked…

Tagged with: Automata Processor, Dropbox, FalconStor, Flash Storage Platform, FreeStor, Google Drive, Micron, Springpath, Violin Memory
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Briefing Note: Violin Memory ushers in the Flash Storage Platform

Posted on February 17, 2015 by George Crump

Even though memory has always played a role in the storage infrastructure, the introduction of flash based storage has lead to rapid advancements in the evolution of storage. Today flash use has evolved from simply augmenting disk-based primary storage (hybrid…

Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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