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Forget All-Flash Arrays, Aim for Flash-Optimized Storage First
Read this expert guide to learn why focusing on optimizing your existing storage infrastructure for flash, rather than adopting a whole new all-flash array might be the right way to go. Then, read 5 quick tips on what to look for in a flash-first array.
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Seven Ways Flash Data Storage Beats HDDs for Any Workload
In this expert guide from Marc Staimer, founder and senior analyst at Dragon Slayer Consulting, learn 7 ways flash storage can outperform HDDs for all your workloads. Download now to determine flash's compatibility with non-critical workloads, as well.
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What's Changing with Oracle Database Releases
As Oracle changes its database release cycle to yearly updates with new version numbering, Oracle users will get faster access to new features – but does that come with a downside? Find out for yourself inside.
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Ten Reasons to do an Oracle Database Upgrade
If everything your Oracle DB runs fine, an Oracle database upgrade risks breaking things, application vendors may not support an updated version of Oracle in their software, or database upgrades are too time-consuming. But this isn't always the case. Learn 10 reasons why you should consider doing an Oracle database upgrade.
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FlashStack with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage FlashArray//m for 5000 Citrix XenDesktop Users
This document provides a reference architecture and design guide for up to 5000 seat mixed workload on Cisco UCS and Pure Storage FlashArray//m with Citrix XenApp server-based sessions, XenDesktop persistent Windows 10 virtual desktops and XenDesktop pooled Windows 10 virtual desktops on VMware vSphere 6
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FlashStack with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage Flash Array//m for 5000 VMware Horizon View 6.2 Users
This document provides architecture reference and design guide for up to 5000 seat mixed workload onCisco UCS and Pure Storage FlashArray//m with VMware Horizon 6.2 RDS server-based sessions andLinked Clone Windows 7 virtual desktops on vSphere 6.
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Converged vs. Hyper-converged Infrastructure: The Bottom Line
In this guide, contributors from SearchConvergedInfrastructure lay out the differences between converged and hyper-converged infrastructure storage. Read on to finally get the bottom line from our experts on the divergence between CI and HCI storage, with specific appliance examples.
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How Hyper-converged Infrastructure Gives Data Centers a Boost
Download this expert guide to view the trends and vendors shaping HCI and its role in the software-defined data center (SDDC). You'll also gain advice on implementing HCI, regardless of whether your apps are traditional, big data- or cloud-based.
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Assessing Hyper-converged Infrastructures Based on Feature Capabilities
In this expert guide, 20-year industry veteran Jacob Gsoedl demonstrates how hyper-converged systems differ from traditional storage systems. Read on to get a run-down of the top considerations buyers should have on their checklist for evaluating, purchasing, and deploying HCI, and more.
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Top 10 Factors That Ensure VDI Success
Learn how VDI's capabilities and benefits have changed drastically.
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Consolidating Workloads with VMware and Pure Storage
ESG Lab validated through hands-on testing that tier-1 application workloads.
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Pure Storage CEO Assesses NVMe, Flash Storage Market
In this guide from the SearchStorage.com editors, senior news writer Garry Kranz sits down with Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen to assess the evolutionary cycle of NVMe flash, the likely timeline for its mainstream adoption, a glimpse into flash-based backup techniques, and more. Read on to stay in the NVMe loop.
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SearchStorage Editors Examine the Leading All-flash Array Vendors
In 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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Medical Imaging Innovations and the Cloud
Rasu Shrestha, M.D., CIO at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, discusses how medical imaging innovations are revolutionizing radiology and other disciplines of healthcare.
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Enterprise Imaging is Becoming Mainstream in Healthcare
While VNAs and PACS appear to be coexisting, enterprise imaging in healthcare is taking over from purely departmental and radiology centered approaches. In this e-guide, KLAS analyst, Monique Rasband, and medical imaging software expert, Joe Marion, provide their insight into why enterprise imaging is the way to go for healthcare organizations.
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Data Science and AI Revolutionize Medical Imaging
Medical imaging has advanced alongside data science and artificial intelligence to provide clinicians with the tools to provide the best possible outcomes for their patients. Access this e-guide to uncover how these trends are revolutionizing medical imaging to help with the transition to value-based and personalized care.
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How Storage Is Catching Up with the DevOps Revolution
In this essential guide, discover why DevOps requirements are shifting how enterprises consume and deploy storage resources to a more-cloud focused approach. Download now to gain guidance on storage technologies most appropriate for Agile development, including VM-aware secondary storage, hyper-convergence, and more.
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Simplifying Storage Allocations for Virtual Desktops
"How can I simplify storage allocation for virtual desktops?" You asked the question, we have the answer. Read on to discover how to address storage allocation requirements of both the operating system and apps, and VDI user data, in this expert guide.
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VDI Hardware Evaluation Checklist
Organizations considering VDI must exercise caution when choosing the hardware on which to run their platform. From this e-guide, learn how to choose the right VDI hardware for your deployment. Read on to access a five-point checklist for selection, and more.
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Storage Showdown: All-flash vs. Hybrid Arrays for Virtual Desktop Environments
Download 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
Use 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
Access 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?
Which 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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Ten Methods of Improving Virtual Server Storage
Performance monitoring for virtual storage is very difficult due to the hypervisor lacking the insight into what's happening with that storage. This expert guide illustrates how to improve the performance of your virtual server storage with 10 proven methods.
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DevOps Strategy for Health Site Fueled by Flash, CDM
In 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.