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Will Tier 1 Storage Be All Solid State in 3 years?

By Camberley Bates, Monday, June 8th 2015

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We contend Tier 1 storage purchases will be all solid state in 3 years; 5 years on the outside for the enterprise data center. While we have caught some heat with this position, we contend the movement is more than...

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Measuring Performance on Solid State Systems and More by Camberley Bates

By Camberley Bates, Wednesday, April 15th 2015

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Several months ago, Evaluator Group joined the webinar service BrightTalk to provide educational content on storage. Reading through BrightTalk’s list of past and upcoming summits (day-long webinar events), we noticed they had content on nearly every major new storage technology...

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“Solid State Deployments: Recommendations for POCs” DSI Presentation from Russ Fellows

By Russ Fellows, Friday, April 10th 2015

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Russ Fellows delivered "Solid State Deployments: Recommendations for POCs" at SNIA's Data Storage Innovation conference on Tuesday, April 7. If you weren't able to catch his presentation live, view his slides here on-demand. 

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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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Solid state requires different storage performance metrics – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, August 25th 2014

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The use of solid state technology in the form of NAND flash for storage systems changes the way we need to evaluate storage. While it brings power, space, and reliability advantages, the main reason for using solid state is performance – it...

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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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Innovative storage technologies can advance IT – Randy Kerns Storagesoup Blog

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, February 7th 2013

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Information Technology (IT) organizations must continue to innovate and advance their capabilities to deliver services more economically. Without making progress, competitive pressures will overtake IT with the following results: • The potential to be outsourced will become greater with the...

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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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Confusion over storage consolidation — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, May 15th 2012

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Storage consolidation seems to be a simple concept. If you reduce the number of storage systems, you benefit from fewer devices to manage, less space required, and less power/cooling demands. Yet there is confusion over exactly what the term storage...

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