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Economic Interactive Models, TCO and other Tools for Solid State Array Decision Making

By Camberley Bates, Sunday, August 7th 2016

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Since I began my career, I have always used business case models to determine best approaches for everything from comparing acquisition options to the value of implementing new technologies.  For Evaluator Group, this has been a way of business as...

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All-flash storage will dominate, eventually – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Friday, September 5th 2014

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It seems clear that all solid-state technology will become common in primary storage systems soon. In our IT client engagements, we see many companies including the transition to all solid state in their storage strategies. As with many new technologies, there are...

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Categorizing solid state storage systems – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Friday, August 1st 2014

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There are many types of implementations of solid state or flash storage systems.  At Evaluator Group, we regularly field questions and work on projects regarding solid state storage with our IT clients. In addition to the performance explanations and evaluation guide for...

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“What if you could transact your business 10 times faster?” –blog by Camberley Bates

By Camberley Bates, Tuesday, June 11th 2013

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Last fall I wrote a post on the pronouncement we heard a CIO make to his IT group on adding more storage capacity in 2013: “No New Storage, use what you’ve got.” The reasoning for this decision was twofold:  First,...

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Solid state storage: consider the long term – Randy Kerns Storage Soup Blog

By Randy Kerns, Monday, March 18th 2013

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The interest in deploying solid state storage is still building, but there are already a handful of ways to introduce solid state technology into existing IT infrastructures: • As a PCIe solid state memory card installed in a server with...

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Choosing the appropriate page size for sub-LUN automated tiering – Leah Schoeb on SearchSolidStateStorage

By Leah Schoeb, Monday, March 4th 2013

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Automated tiering has become a popular offering among most major storage vendors. The ability to automatically and intelligently move part of a LUN or volume to the appropriate storage media based on performance requirements or frequency of use has shown a performance...

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Rise of solid state storage raises fabric concerns- Randy Kerns blog on Storage Soup

By Randy Kerns, Monday, February 11th 2013

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The use of solid state-based storage systems is rapidly increasing. So far, solid state technology has been deployed to accelerate applications in specific environments. Successes have been demonstrated for increasing the number of transactions a system can perform, the number of virtual...

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“Should you believe vendors jaw-dropping solid-state performance specs?” – Storage Magazine by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, January 11th 2013

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Leah Schoeb writes on measuring and comparing Solid-State performance for Storage Magazine. Read the StorageMagazine Article

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Misconceptions about storage tiering in the mid-tier, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, June 21st 2011

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During many of my discussions with IT managers and directors who would be classified in the mid-tier enterprise space (over 1,000 employees), it has become clear that few have deployed storage systems using solid state drives (SSD) with internal tiering....

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Flash SSD Systems Redefine Storage Tiers — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, April 25th 2011

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The popularity of storage systems that support tiering within the box, driven primarily by NAND Flash solid state drives (SSDs), has created confusion about the meaning of storage tiering. While speaking to directors and CIOs of IT operations at a...

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