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Cracking the I/O-nut

Published in BC/DR Flash Management Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Don't judge a system by its flash, judge it by its cache, says Dominik Mutterer, Field Applications Engineer, Avago Technologies.

Published in BC/DR Flash Management Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

Thomas, Judy & Tucker (TJ&T), a leading CPA firm in Raleigh, N.C., has deployed a StorTrends high performance storage area network (SAN) to ensure application performance and the protection of its financial and legal data, while adhering to its strict budgetary requirements. Not wanting to sacrifice speed for cost, the new StorTrends SAN provides TJ&T with the performance of solid-state disk (SSD) caching and SSD tiering, at the cost of spinning disk.

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Virtualisation

Lenovo’s Flex System can now be used to power EMC® VSPEX™ reference architectures for private cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). These two EMC-validated solutions - EMC VSPEX by Flex System for Private Cloud and EMC VSPEX by Flex System for VDI – are solutions that address enterprise and mid-market customers’ key challenges, such as lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), faster deployments, and simplified management.

Published in BC/DR Flash Management Server Technology Software Defined DC & Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology

Seagate Technology plc says that its Enterprise Performance 15K HDD and its 1200 SSD 12Gb/s SAS drives have been certified by VMware as interoperable storage tiers for VMware Virtual SAN. An industry first, Seagate 12Gb/s hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) now support Virtual SAN for VMware vSphere®, a new hypervisor-converged storage platform, delivering the benefits of faster, more reliable and cost-effective shared data for traditional data centres and emerging cloud...