Software-defined storage is finding new life beyond its role in hyperconverged infrastructure, returning to its roots as a pure storage system. We look at SDS products from NetApp SolidFire and StorONE. Software-defined storage, or SDS, is a somewhat ambiguous term...
Read More »Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...
Read More »At VMworld a couple weeks ago, Chad Sakac, President of VCE, DellEMC’s Converged Platform Division, made it clear that Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are a big part of the company’s plans moving forward. They’ve also had some early success. VxRail (which...
Read More »The history of computing can be seen as mankind’s journey toward making a machine imitate the human mind. Our brains process multiple streams and many types of data, simultaneously and in real time. We are able to focus on what’s...
Read More »Flash storage, or using the broader term, solid-state storage, suffers from an inadequate measure of value. Flash storage provides a step-function improvement in the ability to store and retrieve information. The value of processing with flash storage compared to access...
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