The News: Pure Storage announced a new model of their all-flash file and object system FlashBlade. Pure's FlashBlade//E takes a detour from the performance oriented focus of the original FlashBlade design and the subsequent FlashBlade//S. Instead, Pure's new FlashBlade//E system...
Read More »IT infrastructure doesn’t typically ‘wear out’, so much as it becomes obsolete. Technology changes fast enough that newer models offer substantial benefits over systems that may be only a few years old. This is particularly true with controller hardware where obsolescence...
Read More »After attending Intel’s Developer Forum last week a few things about 3D XPoint from my previous blog need to be updated. This technology will be marketed by Intel under the name “Optane” and available in 2.5” SSDs leveraging the new...
Read More »Many new storage technologies show great promise. They have useful capabilities such as transferring data faster, storing information for less cost, migrating data with less disruption and administration, and utilizing storage resources more efficiently. Technologies get evaluated on the value...
Read More »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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