Flash Memory Research
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SearchStorage Editors Examine the Leading All-flash Array Vendors
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn this e-guide, we evaluate eight leading AFA vendors to let you decide which products best suit your organization. Read on as Logan Harbaugh, IT consultant and freelance reviewer with SearchStorage, breaks down how to select an AFA vendor based on functional specification, 3 essential purchasing considerations, and more.
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Differentiating All-flash Array Vendors from their Counterparts
Sponsored by: Western DigitalOur experts compiled this guide to determining the most suitable AFA vendor for your enterprise—ensuring you choose one that not only provides snapshots and thin provisioning, but also active-active controllers and replication, and QoS. Read on to also gain access to instruction for a three-phase AFA implementation.
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All-flash Storage Arrays: Are They Killing Hybrids?
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageWhere there are instances when either all-flash or hybrid arrays work well—that is where the battle for dominance occurs. In this issue of Storage Handbook, our experts deconstruct the hybrid vs. AFA debate, digging into cost, network connectivity, and which arrays are more pertinent for primary storage workloads.
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Storage Showdown: All-flash vs. Hybrid Arrays for Virtual Desktop Environments
Sponsored by: Pure StorageDownload this guide as Tom Fenton, Senior Validation Engineer at the Taneja Group, illustrates several critical factors to consider when deciding to use an all-flash or hybrid array in your virtual desktop environments. Here, you'll evaluate hybrid vs. all-flash on cost, ability access to cold data, compression and deduplication, and more.
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Flash Storage Caching Boosts Application Performance—but Requires Balance
Sponsored by: Pure StorageUse this guide as a comprehensive resource for evaluating flash caching benefits, trade-offs, 3 main implementation models, and determine where to cache in order to leverage faster media and improve I/O performance.
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SQL Server SSD Technology Becoming a Solid Storage Choice
Sponsored by: Pure StorageAccess this e-guide to clue into exactly why SSD is emerging as a solid storage choice for SQL Server. Our experts highlight how SSD's embedded controller ensures the integrity of the data stored in the drive, and address your concerns centered on drive reliability and longevity.
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Which Types of Flash Make the Most Sense for Virtualization?
Sponsored by: Pure StorageWhich types of flash make the most sense for a virtualized environment? In this expert guide, George Crump evaluates the durability of three types of flash—single-level, multi-level, and triple-level cell. Read on to also delve into three flash form factors to consider when implementing it on virtual workloads.
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DevOps Strategy for Health Site Fueled by Flash, CDM
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn this expert guide, discover how women's health website Lifescript implemented a revenue-boosting DevOps strategy with all-flash storage and copy data management. Read on to see how this SSD/CDM duo succeeds, with built-in data deduplication and more.
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If Performance Is Paramount, Flash Cloud Storage May be Key
Sponsored by: TintriThis e-guide serves as your essential resource for choosing a cloud provider with integrated flash storage to maximize your cloud app performance. Read on to learn why object storage just doesn't deliver the scale and performance cloud apps demand, and instead see how SSD steps in to deliver potentially unlimited scale.
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Solid-State Storage Device Buyers Want Performance
Sponsored by: AvnetRead this expert guide to flesh out flash implementation, and discover why I/O performance lags, capacity concerns, and server virtualization are fueling SSD appliance adoption. Additionally, learn the top 3 apps storage admins indicate are in most need of flash.
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Honing Your Business Case for All-flash Array Implementation
Sponsored by: AvnetDownload this expert guide to delve into the AFA essentials, and learn which apps will best benefit from implementation. Read on to take advantage of AFA deduplication and compression for virtual apps, as well as learn how HDDs compare to SSDs, how to accommodate apps that require more IOPS, and more.
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Hyper-convergence Extends to New Horizons—and New Uses with All-flash Storage
Sponsored by: LenovoDownload this expert guide to gain a foothold in the hyper-converged market, and discover why all-flash storage is now an integral component in converged infrastructure. Read on to learn how to apply flash-based HCI to high-performance databases, VDI workloads, and more.
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Everything You Need to Know About Server-Side Flash Storage
Sponsored by: Micron TechnologyIn this expert-guide, delve deeper into server-based solid state storage. Inside, discover 6 forms of flash, 5 typical interfaces used for connecting storage devices, the essentials of server-side caching, and more.
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Dell EMC injects PowerEdge into ScaleIO Nodes
Sponsored by: Dell EMCBefore the ink has even dried in the Dell-EMC merger signing, the duo has already injected Dell's PowerEdge servers into numerous EMC flash storage products. Access this eGuide to learn about the features of their new products including ScaleIO software, DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash system and more.
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Solid State Drives are Changing the Future of NAS Apps
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and Intel®Access this eGuide to learn how solid state drives (SSD) will affect the future of primary and secondary network attached storage (NAS) applications.
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NetApp-SolidFire Partnership Benefits Both Parties
Sponsored by: NetAppNetApp has been gaining recent momentum in the flash storage market, jumping from 4th to 2nd place, after its recent acquisition of SolidFire. This eGuide dives into the SolidFire integration, how this will benefit customers and the potential roadmap for NetApp's all-flash portfolio.
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SF9605 Named a Top Flash Product of the Year
Sponsored by: NetAppSolidFire's quality of service (QoS) has helped it remain above its competitors in its 5 years in the flash storage market. In this eGuide, learn about the features of their new storage node, SF9605, and see why Storage magazine calls it one of the top flash products of the year.
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LOB Managers Utilize All-Flash to Drive Decision-Making and Boost Oracle App Performance
Sponsored by: Pure StorageDiscover how LOB managers are leveraging all-flash storage to drive better decision-making by boosting the performance, reliability, and development of Oracle apps and analytics. Access this expert guide to see the essentials, as well as 5 key reasons why all-flash on Oracle is essential for app owners.
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Improve Database Performance with Flash Storage
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn this eGuide, learn how flash storage dramatically improves database performance in 4 key areas: database IOPS, query performance, data reduction and backup.
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Key Server-Side Flash Storage Considerations
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and Intel®To simplify the solid state storage purchasing process, this eguide provides an overview of a plethora of factors to consider including various form factors, interfaces, capacities as well as advantages and limitations of server-side solid-state storage.
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Price Comparison: AFA vs. HDD
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and Intel®Vendors are claiming that all-flash arrays (AFA) are the same price as hard disk drives (HDD) but is this really true? This eguide delves into the finer details beneath the initial price tag and compares cost in terms of data efficiency and capacity.
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A Hybrid Flash Offering From NetApp
Sponsored by: NetAppNetApp has added a hybrid flash offering to their portfolio which offers users the best of both traditional and next-gen technologies without having to compromise like they would with other vendors. Read on to learn more about NetApp's E-series (EF), the hybrid flash offering, and see how it compares to their traditional and next-gen platforms.
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Formulate an Enterprise Storage Capacity Plan that Doesn't Bust Your Budget
Sponsored by: IBMLearn how to formulate a storage capacity plan that won't bust the IT budget; here, you will also find guidance on how to reduce component complexity with the adoption of now-affordable SSDs, all-flash arrays, and storage as a service, so as to accommodate unstructured data growth.
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Implications of Changing Flash Storage Expectations
Sponsored by: NetAppCapacity used to be the most important factor for SSDs but as SSDs usage shifts from solving specific performance problems to a more general-purpose storage medium, performance expectations have skyrocketed. In this eGuide, learn how changing expectations in the next phases of flash will affect application development.
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Is the Hybrid Storage Array Dying?
Sponsored by: Dell EMCIs hybrid storage heading toward extinction? Discover if hybrid storage with HDDs is indeed a dying breed, as well as examine the challenges confronting today's flash data storage simplification. Additionally, learn the top 9 reasons for the increased adoption of object-level storage.
