A Thirst For Petabyte Scale All-Flash Arrays
Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. …
Some technology trends get their start among enterprises, some from hyperscalers or HPC organizations. …
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware was reluctant to take on the storage area establishment most aptly represented by its parent company, EMC, with virtual storage area network storage software aimed at commodity hardware. …
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. …
Five years ago, when flash was still an exotic thing in enterprise storage but had been a mainstay for accelerating databases and metadata at hyperscalers for a number of years, Dell and EMC were partners, but its acquisition of Compellent Technologies for $960 million essentially broke up that relationship. …
Hyperscalers like Apple and Facebook helped flash vendors like Fusion-io, now part of SanDisk, get off the ground in such a big way that they could then attack the broader enterprise market. …
There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. …
In a cloud-based, highly distributed, and data-centric world, flexibility in what a piece of hardware and its systems software can do, where it can run, and how it can be configured is a critical differentiator for picky enterprises. …
Since its inception in 2009 as a provider of all-flash systems, Pure Storage has carefully put together a portfolio that has many of the storage bases in the datacenter covered. …
We have nothing against disk drives. Seriously. And in fact, we are amazed at the amount of innovation that continues to go into the last electromechanical device still in use in computing, which from a commercial standpoint started out with the tabulating machines created by Herman Hollerith in 1884 and used to process the 1890 census in the United States, thus laying the foundation of International Business Machines. …
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
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