Storage Consolidation Research
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Focus: PCIe SSD, NVMe and flash
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comPCIe SSD cards fit straight into PCIe slots in servers and array hardware and often brings much higher performance than traditional HDD-format flash drives..
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Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comThis guide offers a comprehensive survey of the hybrid flash storage market. We give the lowdown on hybrid flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we take a look at what's best for virtual desktops: All-flash or hybrid?
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Storage trends 2016: Storage priorities, cloud appliances and NAS vs object storage
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comThis guide offers a collection of our most popular articles on storage-related issues from the first few months of 2016.
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HPE-SimpliVity Deal Raises Support, Price and Development Questions
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseWhat's to be expected from HPE's purchase of SimpliVity? Download this guide by searchConvergedInfrastructure.com editors, as SimpliVity customers react to the move. The info inside will help you keep an eye on HPE's support of SimpliVity products, how and if SimpliVity becomes part of HPE's multicloud strategy, and more.
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Hyper-converged vs. Converged IT Infrastructures Explained
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThe days of cobbling together makeshift data center systems are fast waning. This e-guide illustrates the difference between converged and hyper-converged infrastructures. Read on to leverage CI and HCI to accelerate server and data center consolidation projects, support VDI deployments, and more.
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Examining the Leading All-flash Array Vendors' Offerings
Sponsored by: AvnetThis SearchStorage.com pocket guide will assist you in not only selecting an all-flash array vendor, but also illustrates how to choose an AFA based on an examination of three AFA product categories— high-end enterprise arrays, midrange systems, and NAS appliances.
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Workload Optimization Tips for Hyper-converged Technologies
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseInside this expert guide, Clive Longbottom, co-founder and service director at Quocirca, identifies which application workloads are best suited for HCI—like ROBO and VDI—and explains why. Read on to gain cautionary advice, as well, with regards to HCI being a main component of cloud platforms.
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Ten Reasons to Consider a Hyper-converged Data Center
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseDownload this guide as our experts reveal the top 10 reasons to consider a hyper-converged data center, including its suitability for scale-out VDI workloads, ROBO support, hardware refresh, and more. Inside, you'll discover which workloads apply to your needs, and determine if HCI should be implemented.
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Converged vs. Hyper-converged Infrastructure: The Bottom Line
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn 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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Kaminario's CEO Identifies a Flash Market Shift, Illustrates the Role of the K2 Array
Sponsored by: SilkDownload this guide to get a technical breakdown from our editors on Kaminario's K2 array, including it data compression improvements (ratio of 4:1) and compatibility with NVMe. Then, you'll access a Q&A with Kaminario's CEO Dani Golan, in which he identifies how the flash market is shifting.
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All-flash Array Market Advances Outpace Demand, Create Opportunities
Sponsored by: SilkIn this guide, our experts deconstruct the high-density all-flash disruption. Additionally, you'll access an article by George Crump, President of Storage Switzerland, in which he illustrates the state of this year's flash storage systems, and talks in detail about NVMe, as well as flash DIMM.
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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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How Storage Is Catching Up with the DevOps Revolution
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn 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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Cohesity's Converged Infrastructure Boosts Backup Storage
Sponsored by: CohesityRead this expert guide, learn about Cohesity's new software-only and hyper-converged hardware platforms built to help you automate your backup and disaster recovery processes in the cloud.
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Take a Deep Dive into the Software-defined Storage Market
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageDownload this handbook to discover how to extract the most value from the software-defined storage market—and obtain the best ROI from your virtual storage—with this deep dive into SDS technologies, including hypervisor-based SDS, object SDS, and more.
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Hyper-converged platforms grow to include secondary storage space
Sponsored by: RubrikHyper-converged platforms have grown to include secondary storage space; however secondary-storage still faces a plethora of issues. Discover how to best address the problems facing secondary storage and how vendors are promising to make life easier for storage administrators.
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Utilizing Data-aware Storage in the Age of Convergence
Sponsored by: IBMAccess the latest on converged, data-aware storage architectures, which seek to improve performance optimization through smart deduplication and compression schemes, app-aligned caching and tiering, policy-definable QoS, and data protection schemes. Additionally, discover why flash is crucial to convergence.
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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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Utilizing SSD Flash and Object Storage: Should Both Be Used Simultaneously?
Sponsored by: Dell EMCIs it possible to increase object storage performance by as much as 100 times? Now may be the time to deploy SSD flash and object storage together, and in this guide, learn the performance and reliability benefits of utilizing both simultaneously. As a bonus, read on to access seven tips for improving data storage efficiency.
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A Breakdown of All-Flash Array Variations in Regards to Your Flash Cloud Storage
Sponsored by: Dell EMCThis eGuide introduces variations of cloud computing including using the cloud as a disaster recovery target, the benefits of flash storage, what you should look for in a system as well as the ways to take advantage of the strategies. Finally, analyze the flash storage arrays to help you target which systems are the best pick for storing your data.
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How to Address Problems brought on by the Hadoop Distributed File System
Sponsored by: IBMIn this e-guide, John Webster of the Evaluator Group describes the typical issues that come with HDFS, and how you can mitigate them. Discover ways to avoid disk failure, data loss scenarios, loss of connectivity, and more.
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CW Europe – Forecast: Cloudy with Dry Spells
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comIn Europe cloud is restricted and hybrid setups make use of local compute and storage.
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Changing the Economics of Flash Storage
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This infographic highlights a flash storage solution that is 1/5 the price of other SSD solutions, but has 90% less latency than traditional spinning arrays.
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Get Your Ideal Match for OLTP Workloads
Sponsored by: Micron TechnologyIn this white paper, learn why traditional low-latency storage solutions are outdated and how these technologies hold your organization back. Find out how solid state drives (SSDs) reduce space on hard drives and optimize storage efficiency and if it's fitting for your organization.
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Scalable SQL Server 2014-Based Decision Support Systems
Sponsored by: Micron TechnologyThis paper discusses the importance of DSS to enterprises and describes an internal test performed by Micron. Find out which SSDs performed best in testing and how to guarantee the performance and scalability required by DSS running on a Microsoft SQL Server 2014.
