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Optimizing Your Storage Spaces Direct Configuration
In this blog series, Peter Plamondon will be sharing helpful, broad guidelines on how to optimize your Storage Spaces Direct configuration and avoid common pitfalls.
January 26, 2018 • 5 min read Data

HGST Lights Up Ignite 2017
Storage Spaces Direct delivers real benefits for IT. But how do you know the right configuration from the hundreds of available options? At Ignite 2017, we’ll share our deep knowledge around how to choose the right storage devices.
September 12, 2017 • 5 min read Data

What in the World are WHQL, AQs and PCS?
Our enterprise HDDs and SSDs at Western Digital are known for industry-leading reliability and Quality of Service (QoS). For this reason, they are widely used by cloud service providers, server OEMs and server ODMs.
March 15, 2017 • 5 min read Data

Update on Storage Spaces – A Surge of Adoption
If anyone knows Storage Spaces, it’s DataON. With a sharp ramp up in adoption and the introduction of Storage Spaces Direct, we sat down to hear the latest on real-world customers of Microsoft® software-defined data centers.
September 22, 2016 • 7 min read Data

SanDisk® at Microsoft Ignite™ 2016: See Flash Leadership
Microsoft® has never been more relevant in the data center. At Ignite we’ll show you what flash leadership looks like, why partners turn to SanDisk, and how you can take Microsoft innovations even further.
September 15, 2016 • 5 min read Data

The March to the Launch of SQL Server 2016 Begins Today
The march to the launch of SQL Server 2016 begins today! SQL Server 2016 takes advantage of hardware advances to deliver more value and capabilities that businesses need. Here's why we're excited!
March 10, 2016 • 3 min read Data

SQL Saturday Silicon Valley – Talking Technology!
On the heels of the SIOS MVP Summit I spoke at SQL Saturday Silicon Valley aka #SQLSat375 aka #SQLSatSV. Although it’s a few weeks out already, this is one of the best events of the year! So I thought it deserved a blog to share some of our activities there. SQL Saturday is one of […]
June 3, 2015 • 6 min read Data

Fusion ioMemory Sets Two TPC-H World Records with Lenovo and Microsoft!
Within four weeks we’ve set two TPC-H world records by teaming with Lenovo and Microsoft, beating the previous 3TB and 10TB TPC-H non-clustered records! Take a look at the TPC-H Top Ten Non Clustered Performance Results! You can view the 3TB result here: http://www.tpc.org/3313 and the 10TB result here: http://www.tpc.org/3312 In addition to memory and CPU, […]
May 28, 2015 • 3 min read Data

The Roadmap to Software-Defined Storage – 3 Takeaways from Microsoft Ignite 2015
The future storage is all about server-attached, local flash memory storage and that is the mantra of cloud deployment
May 19, 2015 • 6 min read Data

Flash-Optimized SQL Server Solutions – SanDisk® at Microsoft Ignite 2015
Microsoft Ignite 2015 is just a few days away and we’re excited to showcase our industry leading portfolio of Flash-Optimized solutions for Microsoft SQL Server. Join SanDisk® in Booth #109 This year, SanDisk® is present as a Gold Sponsor and we are planning live theatre sessions running daily in addition to five dedicated solution demo […]
May 1, 2015 • 4 min read Data