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DCIG 2015 AFA Buyer’s Guide is Fantastically Horrible

Good post by Brian Beeler (thank you)

Last week DCIG published their “2015-16 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide.” We’ve grown accustomed to ignoring most “Magic” and “Best Of” quadrants and awards respectively because almost every time they’re garbage. Analysts or media members anoint some vendor or technology best, shiniest, most rectangle or whatever else they can come up with to promote their own brand. What’s worse are the awards that are paid for, an even more disturbing part of enterprise IT sales and marketing.

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by rogerluethy on October 7, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, EMC, Flash, HDS, HP, IBM, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on October 7, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/dcig-2015-afa-buyers-guide-is-fantastically-horrible/

Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O

Good Post by George Crump (thank you)

Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure

A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy storage architectures are ill-prepared to handle. The initial concern is developing a storage infrastructure that will support a container based dev/ops environment. The second concern is that these infrastructures will have to support containers in production as the value of something more granular than a virtual machine (VM) is understood.

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by rogerluethy on September 7, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Cloud, Datacenter, Hyperconverged, Information, Infrastructure, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on September 7, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/docker-and-storage-understanding-docker-io/

The Guide to Selecting Flash for Virtual Environments

Good post by George Crump (thank you)

High performance flash based storage has dramatically improved the storage infrastructure’s ability to respond to the demands of servers and the applications that count on it. Nowhere does this improvement have more potential than in the virtualized server environment. The performance benefits of flash are so great that it can be deployed indiscriminately and still performance gains can be seen. But doing so may not allow the environment to take full advantage of flash performance. It may also be a much more expensive deployment model and put data at risk. Modern data centers need to understand which forms of flash and which deployment models will show the greatest return on investment while not risking any data.

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by rogerluethy on July 14, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, Flash, Hyperconverged, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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Posted by rogerluethy on July 14, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/the-guide-to-selecting-flash-for-virtual-environments/

Flash, Trash and data-driven infrastructures!

Post by Enrico Signoretti (thank you)

I’ve been talking about two-tier storage infrastructures for a while now. End users are targeting this kind of approach to cope with capacity growth and performance needs. The basic idea is to leverage Flash memory characteristics (All-flash, Hybrid, hyperconvergence) on one side and implement huge storage repositories, where they can safely store all the rest (including pure Trash) at the lowest possible cost, on the other. The latter is lately also referred to as a data lake.

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by rogerluethy on June 22, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on June 22, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/flash-trash-and-data-driven-infrastructures/

SanDisk Unveils InfiniFlash All-Flash Array For Big Data

Post by Adam Armstrong (thank you)

Today SanDisk Corp, unveiled its new storage platform, the SanDisk InfiniFlash. The InfiniFlash creates an entirely new category in the IT industry as it geared toward and dubbed “Big Data Flash.” InfiniFlash comes in three configurations that are all aimed at delivering high capacity, high performance, and reliability for big data and hyperscale workloads.

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by rogerluethy on March 5, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on March 5, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/sandisk-unveils-infiniflash-all-flash-array-for-big-data/

Flash market skyrockets as big boys get in on the action

Post by Hannah Breeze (thank you)

Market value reached $11.3bn in 2014

The flash market is no longer being driven purely by aggressive startups, according to IDC, which has pointed to a flurry of storage giants that have cottoned on and helped propel the market to new heights.

In 2014, the global flash-based array market grew to $11.3bn (£7.43bn) – $10bn from the hybrid-flash array (HFA) market and the rest coming from all-flash arrays (AFAs).

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by rogerluethy on January 9, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on January 9, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/flash-market-skyrockets-as-big-boys-get-in-on-the-action/

Understanding IDC’s Flash Sales Figures

Good post by Chris M Evans (thank you)

IDC recently produced a report showing the sales and shipment of all-flash and hybrid storage arrays.  The report shows EMC as top dog and not surprisingly, EMC have provided a free downloadable excerpt, available here.  I always like to dig into numbers into a little more detail as you can start to uncover interesting trends or anomalies (I guess that’s my Maths degree background for you).  In this instance I am struggling to work out how the figures translate to a comparable $/GB figure.

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by rogerluethy on December 29, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on December 29, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/understanding-idcs-flash-sales-figures/

All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management

Post by George Crump (thank you)

Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing  solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed how to determine which files of your application should be put on the SSD. Remember that in 2009 no one could imagine putting an entire application on SSD, let alone an entire data center! Now though, thanks to all-flash arrays, we can. But does that mean we can abandon performance management as a discipline?

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by rogerluethy on September 8, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on September 8, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/all-flash-arrays-vs-performance-management/

Storage 101: Flash Storage Myths and Facts

 

Good Post by Scott D.Lowe (thank you)

Yes.  It’s true that your shiny new all-flash storage array’s solid state disks will wear out over time.  However, unlike the flash storage of yesteryear, this wear process isn’t nearly as serious as it used to be in the past.  This is just one of the evolving facts that litter the flash storage landscape and that can muddy the waters when people are considering adding flash storage to their data centers.  The facts that used to be true just a few years ago have changed drastically and people’s understanding of those changes has lagged behind.

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by rogerluethy on June 25, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Flash, Information, Storage Basics, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on June 25, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/storage-101-flash-storage-myths-and-facts/

PURE STORAGE: Are they the last man standing ?

Good post by Paul Meehan (thank you) – have a look at the comments too

Pure Storage are the guys with Orange colour-themed branding. See the gorgeous Lego-model Pure array on the table in the picture above just in front of Stephen Foskett.

They are also the guys who have received funding of $240 Million and borrowed Vaughn Stewart from Netapp. Somebody must think they’re pretty hot.

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by rogerluethy on April 10, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on April 10, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/pure-storage-are-they-the-last-man-standing/

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