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SlideShare: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?

Posted on December 21, 2018 by George Crump

The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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Do You Have an NVMe Strategy?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by George Crump

NVMe has been in the market for over a year and is living up to its promise to offer game-changing performance. Most vendors have NVMe products available. Traditional vendors are adding NVMe to their existing storage systems as well as…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SSD, Western Digital
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Busting the NVMe Flash Myths

Posted on December 5, 2018 by George Crump

NVMe is the next wave of all-flash systems coming to market. These systems are fast, dense and scalable. They promise to fundamentally change the way IT designs storage architectures in support of existing applications, and they open up new possibilities…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NFS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SMB, Tegile, VMware, Western Digital
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Webinar: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by George Crump

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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How Object Storage Makes a Hybrid Array Better

Posted on September 20, 2018 by George Crump

In our last blog, Storage Switzerland discussed how a hybrid array, with a properly sized flash tier, could provide similar performance to an all-flash array while substantially reducing costs. The next step in storage architecture design is to use the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, Scalability, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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Designing an All-Flash Data Management Strategy

Posted on August 29, 2018 by George Crump

Thanks to decreasing flash media pricing and data efficiency technologies like deduplication, all-flash arrays are now commonplace in many data centers. In most cases though, the purchases of first generation all-flash arrays were to solve a specific performance problem. Now…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Tegile, Western Digital
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Making a Hybrid Array Work for the Enterprise

Posted on August 21, 2018 by George Crump

Hybrid storage systems create a performance concern for IT professionals. The system may respond too slowly to user or application requests for data. If the hybrid system places data on the wrong storage tier at the wrong time, it validates…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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SlideShare: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture

Posted on August 10, 2018 by George Crump

The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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The Math Behind Storage Architecture Design

Posted on August 2, 2018 by George Crump

The speed at which the data center is evolving is forcing IT to sacrifice proper storage architecture design. IT is just trying to keep its head above water; it doesn’t have time to swim. This reality leads to a primary…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Object Storage, ROI, Tegile, Western Digital
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White Paper: Even All-Flash Needs a Data Management Strategy

Posted on July 25, 2018 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays (AFA) have one stunning attribute. They are fast. In some cases, an AFA provides more performance than the typical data center needs. As a result, it seems that AFAs render traditional data management practices obsolete. AFAs are typically…