The best technology companies have always taken something that was complex and done a whole lot of engineering or in many cases re-engineering of it to make it usable and consumable – with the right pricing – so it can go mainstream. …
As enterprises continue to embrace hybrid and multicloud models, they are looking for fast access to the data that can be stored both on-premises or in public clouds, and often in more than one cloud. …
If the history of high performance computing has taught us anything, it is that we cannot focus too much on compute at the expense of storage and networking. …
NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. …
There is no question that plenty of companies are shifting their storage infrastructure from giant NAS and SAN appliances to more generic file, block, and object storage running on plain vanilla X86 servers equipped with flash and disk. …
All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. …
Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. …
Storage giant EMC, soon to be part of the Dell Technologies conglomerate, declared that this would be the year of all flash for the company when it launched its DSSD D5 arrays back in February. …
All flash storage arrays can be sprinkled around the datacenter to provide zippy block storage for database virtual server applications. …
If disk drives were not so inexpensive and capacious, companies would have stopped using them for persistent storage as soon as flash drives became reliable enough for an enterprise duty cycle. …
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