Fast and expensive. That pretty much sums up the way most IT people see Flash storage. No wonder some have likened all-Flash arrays to the data center equivalent of a sports car.
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How Hyperconvergence Is Driving the Old Data Center into Extinction
The software-defined data center (SDDC) has moved from architectural concept to business reality in a surprisingly short amount of time.
With Hyperconvergence, What You Don’t See Is What You Get
When the concept of the cloud was first introduced, there was no discussion of building your own cloud.
The Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins with a Single Appliance
Everywhere I go these days, I hear from IT departments how they feel caught between legacy systems and the cloud. And the truth is that it’s hard to see the future when you’re up to your ears in the past.
Meeting the Demand for Bigger, Better Apps in the Mobile-Cloud Era
Before the cloud, business applications were designed for a client-server environment that was relatively predictable in terms of performance requirements.
There Is No “Aargh!” in “Team” (But Maybe There Should Be)
The idea of a team is a core concept for most businesses. We think of our co-workers as teammates. We refer to our sales successes as wins. We even have team-building exercises. The trouble is, while we’re all on the same team, technically, there are teams within our team.
Why You Need a Converged Infrastructure
Working hard or hardly working? These days, that old office joke might well be directed at the hardware in your data center. In fact, a pair of recent studies suggest that your data center may be more like a data cemetery.
Meet IT Demands Consistently with All Flash Storage
IT departments are widely overtaxed and under-staffed. IT is constantly on the lookout for products that will simplify day to day operations. Ideally, they would like to spend less time planning, getting approvals, and basically locked in the perpetual sales cycle involved in purchasing new technology.
Imagining the Possibilities of Rack Scale Flash
As we transition into the 3rd Platform of IT, enterprises are storing unprecedented amounts of data and those numbers are only going to increase. Alongside these large data sets is the demand for real-time analytics that are low latency.
The Shrink-Wrapped Cloud
This blog begins with an honest disclaimer: there is no such thing as a shrink-wrapped Cloud. But there are pre-integrated solutions on the market today that can dramatically reduce the cost, risk, and time associated with deploying a Cloud solution in your network.