Executive summary Flash storage is every data center’s version of a supercharged sports car. Nothing beats it in speed, efficiency, and handling—though it will burn through your cash much faster than a standard consumer vehicle. Despite the high cost of flash storage,...
Data Center security
Deduplication and Compression: Bringing Flash to the Masses … of Applications
All-flash arrays (AFAs) are sweeping across the technology landscape like a tidal wave, for enterprises of all sizes. They promise super-fast I/O as well as ease of installation, but flash technology is still relatively expensive from a $/GB perspective. Yet, despite...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): The Roadblocks and Rewards
One of the greatest technology advancements of the last two decades has been virtualization. In the mid-2000s we saw server virtualization accelerate the power of data. Today it is the defacto standard for most corporate platforms and enterprises are now racing to...
Three Big Themes for 2015: Re-platform, Optimize and Virtualize
Flash Storage, Hyper-Converged Storage and Software Defined Data Centers Take Center Stage Costa Mesa, CA – February 26, 2015 – As virtualization technology continues to transform corporate information technology (IT), flash storage, hyper-converged infrastructure and...