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Storage islands leave data management plans adrift – StorageSoup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, June 29th 2015

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A major problem that IT professionals have dealt with over time is the creation of islands of storage. A common cause of islands is when organizations purchase and deploy new systems with their own storage for a specific purpose. Storage islands...

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Bifurcating enterprise storage – StorageSoup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, March 9th 2015

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Bifurcating Enterprise Storage The enterprise storage market is splitting into two areas that are still indistinct but will become a lot less so. It’s important to understand this evolution if you are to make sense of storage vendor product strategy....

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What happened to the promise of faster flash performance? TechTarget article by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Tuesday, January 6th 2015

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IT managers are being convinced by storage vendors that solid-state flash storage will accelerate their applications by magnitudes. But after deploying solid-state storage, many see only modest performance gains or no performance improvement at all. So, what happened to the promise...

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How Storage Controllers Differ, StorageSoup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, December 4th 2014

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All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types — custom designed, purpose-built, and commodity server-based. Each...

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Like Politics, Storage Campaigns Take Negative Turn- StorageSoup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, December 3rd 2014

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Now that we have just finished an election where special interest groups seeking to control government through their proxies spent billions of dollars marketing campaigns to make negative claims about competitors, we should think about the lesson this has taught...

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Storage networking catching up to SSD performance, TechTarget article by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Monday, November 24th 2014

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The storage industry has made a quantum leap in performance and latency with solid-state storage. Now storage networking technologies are playing catch-up so applications can utilize the maximum performance and low latency that solid-state technology offers. New fabric capabilities that increase performance and scale...

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Estimating required storage capacity proves tricky — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Monday, October 8th 2012

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Buying storage is an ongoing process that may be periodic in some environments and seemingly continuous in others. There are several primary reasons given for storage purchases: New application deployments that require storing significant amounts of data. Performance or features...

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