archiveSoftware Defined Storage

As you build your IT strategy for 2017, here are three rules to Software-Defined Storage that you should follow to ensure its success.

When we think about the requirements of the modern data center, a large number of variables come to mind. Here are the top five technology trends disrupting the status quo.

Scale, performance, agility and breakthrough economics. SanDisk and IBM enable organizations to economically deploy flash at petabyte-scale and drive business growth by delivering new services and offerings.

Unprecedented scaling at lower costs. Chris Howard shares performance metrics from InfiniFlash and IBM GPFS (now known as Spectrum Scale) showing how organization can extract more insight from collected data and devices.

Working with Oracle database deployments, from earlier versions such as Oracle 7x to the latest Oracle database 12c , I...

In my last blog post I talked about our VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution with our partner Lenovo, and new OLTP...

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve shared my last blog, mostly as I have been so busy working with...

VMware is expanding the platform’s SDS capabilities to incorporate and support third party software-based data services such as caching and...

There are so many choices available today as to how to adopt all-flash Virtual SAN. And that means customers can deploy the most efficient infrastructure for their workload needs.

There are three distinct ways VDI is deployed: VDI–in-a-box, VDI in network storage and VDI in software-defined storage. Flash plays a key role in each deployment architecture, improving user experience, accelerating performance and reducing costs. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares how.

The future storage is all about server-attached, local flash memory storage and that is the mantra of cloud deployment

Which drives should you choose when deploying VMware Virtual SAN? Here are 4 considerations for picking the right storage device.

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is new approach to hypervisor-converged infrastructure that I’ve written about extensively on this blog. I want...

SDS is great approach to address performance, availability and data services needs. But without flash, SDS cannot reap the architecture’s performance benefits. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares the first Storage Spaces testing results

Five key foundational forces support the success of this year's trends. Without them, these technological advances would not take off the way they have.

In the past several years our industry has seen the emergence of the “Software-Defined” concept. Where previously resource management, policy,...