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...
Read More »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....
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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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