Opinion
Opinion
Storage fabric, switches and networks
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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IT transformation brings storage transformation
IT departments’ moves away from specialised skills to generalist skillsets are fuelling the rise of easy-to-use hyper-converged infrastructure and all-flash storage systems Continue Reading
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Is your storage ready for the future?
Research study looks at the challenge of building a storage infrastructure to meet the rapidly changing needs of business Continue Reading
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You’ve got flash storage, so why isn’t everything faster?
To get the most out of flash storage you need storage performance monitoring of the whole stack, from servers to LUNs Continue Reading
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Storage arrays face two-pronged flash/cloud attack
The storage array as we know it could soon be a thing of the past, as hot data heads to flash and cold data goes to the cloud, leaving a slimmer array for bulk data on HDDs. Continue Reading
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Has EMC missed out on the hybrid flash array?
EMC has announced a three-pronged entry into the world of the flash array, but why hasn’t the giant vendor adopted the hybrid flash array pioneered by some innovative startups? Continue Reading
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How big storage vendors can win the server-side flash wars
With Fusion-io up against EMC’s Project Lightning, it’s becoming clear how the big array vendors can win the server-side flash wars in the battle to speed storage I/O. Continue Reading
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TLC flash could relegate spinning disk to the background
Solid-state drives are currently blocked in their quest for dominance by cost and wear limits, but could TLC flash overcome such challenges and deal a blow to spinning disk? Continue Reading