Flash Memory Reports

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we evaluate eight leading AFA vendors to let you decide which products best suit your organization. Read on as Logan Harbaugh, IT consultant and freelance reviewer with SearchStorage, breaks down how to select an AFA vendor based on functional specification, 3 essential purchasing considerations, and more.

Posted: 26 Jul 2017 | Published: 20 Jul 2017

EGUIDE: Our experts compiled this guide to determining the most suitable AFA vendor for your enterprise—ensuring you choose one that not only provides snapshots and thin provisioning, but also active-active controllers and replication, and QoS. Read on to also gain access to instruction for a three-phase AFA implementation.

Posted: 26 Jun 2017 | Published: 19 Jun 2017

EBOOK: Where there are instances when either all-flash or hybrid arrays work well—that is where the battle for dominance occurs. In this issue of Storage Handbook, our experts deconstruct the hybrid vs. AFA debate, digging into cost, network connectivity, and which arrays are more pertinent for primary storage workloads.

Posted: 27 Apr 2017 | Published: 27 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Download this guide as Tom Fenton, Senior Validation Engineer at the Taneja Group, illustrates several critical factors to consider when deciding to use an all-flash or hybrid array in your virtual desktop environments. Here, you'll evaluate hybrid vs. all-flash on cost, ability access to cold data, compression and deduplication, and more.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 20 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Use this guide as a comprehensive resource for evaluating flash caching benefits, trade-offs, 3 main implementation models, and determine where to cache in order to leverage faster media and improve I/O performance.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Access this e-guide to clue into exactly why SSD is emerging as a solid storage choice for SQL Server. Our experts highlight how SSD's embedded controller ensures the integrity of the data stored in the drive, and address your concerns centered on drive reliability and longevity.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Which types of flash make the most sense for a virtualized environment? In this expert guide, George Crump evaluates the durability of three types of flash—single-level, multi-level, and triple-level cell. Read on to also delve into three flash form factors to consider when implementing it on virtual workloads.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 19 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, discover how women's health website Lifescript implemented a revenue-boosting DevOps strategy with all-flash storage and copy data management. Read on to see how this SSD/CDM duo succeeds, with built-in data deduplication and more.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: This e-guide serves as your essential resource for choosing a cloud provider with integrated flash storage to maximize your cloud app performance. Read on to learn why object storage just doesn't deliver the scale and performance cloud apps demand, and instead see how SSD steps in to deliver potentially unlimited scale.

Posted: 19 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Read this expert guide to flesh out flash implementation, and discover why I/O performance lags, capacity concerns, and server virtualization are fueling SSD appliance adoption. Additionally, learn the top 3 apps storage admins indicate are in most need of flash.

Posted: 07 Apr 2017 | Published: 05 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to delve into the AFA essentials, and learn which apps will best benefit from implementation. Read on to take advantage of AFA deduplication and compression for virtual apps, as well as learn how HDDs compare to SSDs, how to accommodate apps that require more IOPS, and more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2017 | Published: 30 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to gain a foothold in the hyper-converged market, and discover why all-flash storage is now an integral component in converged infrastructure. Read on to learn how to apply flash-based HCI to high-performance databases, VDI workloads, and more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2017 | Published: 10 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide, delve deeper into server-based solid state storage. Inside, discover 6 forms of flash, 5 typical interfaces used for connecting storage devices, the essentials of server-side caching, and more.

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 | Published: 10 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: Before the ink has even dried in the Dell-EMC merger signing, the duo has already injected Dell's PowerEdge servers into numerous EMC flash storage products. Access this eGuide to learn about the features of their new products including ScaleIO software, DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash system and more.

Posted: 12 Dec 2016 | Published: 08 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Access this eGuide to learn how solid state drives (SSD) will affect the future of primary and secondary network attached storage (NAS) applications.

Posted: 12 Dec 2016 | Published: 06 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: NetApp has been gaining recent momentum in the flash storage market, jumping from 4th to 2nd place, after its recent acquisition of SolidFire. This eGuide dives into the SolidFire integration, how this will benefit customers and the potential roadmap for NetApp's all-flash portfolio.

Posted: 12 Dec 2016 | Published: 07 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: SolidFire's quality of service (QoS) has helped it remain above its competitors in its 5 years in the flash storage market. In this eGuide, learn about the features of their new storage node, SF9605, and see why Storage magazine calls it one of the top flash products of the year.

Posted: 12 Dec 2016 | Published: 07 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Discover how LOB managers are leveraging all-flash storage to drive better decision-making by boosting the performance, reliability, and development of Oracle apps and analytics. Access this expert guide to see the essentials, as well as 5 key reasons why all-flash on Oracle is essential for app owners.

Posted: 09 Dec 2016 | Published: 02 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: In this eGuide, learn how flash storage dramatically improves database performance in 4 key areas: database IOPS, query performance, data reduction and backup.

Posted: 09 Dec 2016 | Published: 02 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: To simplify the solid state storage purchasing process, this eguide provides an overview of a plethora of factors to consider including various form factors, interfaces, capacities as well as advantages and limitations of server-side solid-state storage.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 | Published: 06 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Vendors are claiming that all-flash arrays (AFA) are the same price as hard disk drives (HDD) but is this really true? This eguide delves into the finer details beneath the initial price tag and compares cost in terms of data efficiency and capacity.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 | Published: 06 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: NetApp has added a hybrid flash offering to their portfolio which offers users the best of both traditional and next-gen technologies without having to compromise like they would with other vendors. Read on to learn more about NetApp's E-series (EF), the hybrid flash offering, and see how it compares to their traditional and next-gen platforms.

Posted: 28 Nov 2016 | Published: 17 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Learn how to formulate a storage capacity plan that won't bust the IT budget; here, you will also find guidance on how to reduce component complexity with the adoption of now-affordable SSDs, all-flash arrays, and storage as a service, so as to accommodate unstructured data growth.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 25 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Capacity used to be the most important factor for SSDs but as SSDs usage shifts from solving specific performance problems to a more general-purpose storage medium, performance expectations have skyrocketed. In this eGuide, learn how changing expectations in the next phases of flash will affect application development.

Posted: 19 Sep 2016 | Published: 15 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Is hybrid storage heading toward extinction? Discover if hybrid storage with HDDs is indeed a dying breed, as well as examine the challenges confronting today's flash data storage simplification. Additionally, learn the top 9 reasons for the increased adoption of object-level storage.

Posted: 30 Aug 2016 | Published: 29 Aug 2016