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Why do VMware users love IntelliFlash? It’s really about three main things that IntelliFlash solves:  simplicity, performance, and economics. Simplicity...

Can the combination of NVMe SSDs and VMware vSAN provide the performance and cost efficiency IT needs to deliver a...

From modernizing the data center to digital transformation and integrating the cloud, great things come in threes at VMworld 2017! Here's what you should get excited about in HGST booth #525.

From design considerations to performance best practices, the vSAN Performance Testbed from Western Digital’s Data Propulsion Labs pushes vSAN over 600k IOPs and brings definitive data to vSAN administrators and ReadyNode design teams.

At VMworld in Barcelona, Western Digital will be announcing two new SSD certifications for high performance caching using Virtual SAN™. Learn how flash is enabling the VMware Cloud Foundation.

be_REAL. be_INTEGRATED. be_STRETCHY. Three ways to transform your data center in readiness for tomorrow using hyperconverged infrastructure at the speed of flash.

James Carpignano shares exciting new testing results we've achieved with our partners at HPE using VMware All-Flash VSAN with virtualized Microsoft® SQL Server 2016.

How do databases and business critical applications compare on all-flash versus hybrid VMware Virtual SAN? We worked jointly with ESG to compare the performance and cost impact.

With vSphere 6.0 U1 release, VMware has now made all-flash Virtual SAN configuration easier and better than ever. Here are two ways you can take advantage of these new UI features.

It’s been an exciting year for us here at SanDisk® and our technology partners, and I am personally thrilled to...

In the opening paragraph introducing my recent guest blog on VMware blogs, Michael Haag, Product Line Marketing Manager in the...

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...

We continue to see a rise in the standardization of flash-enabled application workloads with SanDisk® flash.  Our customers are reporting...

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.

In recent months, VMware, SanDisk®, Dell, Avago and Brocade have worked together on VMware’s new, hypervisor-converged Software-Defined Storage platform (SDS), Virtual...

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...

With Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) disabled in over-committing memory in VMware environments, the “Swap to Host Cache” feature plays an important role in tackling server consolidation and memory hungry workloads.

There are many advantages to using SSDs for the capacity tier in VSAN, specifically with Enterprise-grade SSDs reaching 4TB and...

Just Announced: The All-Flash Virtual SAN 6 architecture is an outstanding solution that eliminates high costs, reduces complexity and gives a dramatic boost to performance.

The VMware Partner Exchange is just around the corner, and the FlashSoft team at SanDisk® is more excited than ever...