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Published: 13 Oct 2012
Finding a home for Flash

This article is part of the March 2012 issue of Finding a home for Flash

Data storage technologies keep getting better, but storage vendors may just be up to their old tricks. It seems somehow strange to be publishing my inaugural column in Storage magazine’s last issue of 2011. So much ink has already seen paper (or pixels have been seen on screens) over the last 11 months: articles and columns expressing findings, theories and opinions about the value and benefits of, or limitations and challenges posed by, contemporary data storage products and the way we use them today. The situation sets the bar pretty high for another voice entering the fray to contribute something that will add real value to the discussion already in progress. Equally disconcerting is the fact that I’m writing this column in a hotel room in Newton, Mass., not far from the Hopkinton home of the storage hardware market share leader, EMC. Anyone familiar with my work knows my views, which tend to be quite critical of both EMC’s products and their marketing and sales techniques. These views largely pre-date the burgeoning “gilded age” of storage in which a ... Access >>>

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      Enterprise flash now comes in a variety of form factors aimed at speeding I/O beyond what’s possible with spinning disk in server and desktop virtualisation scenarios.

    • Determining the real cost of storage by Jeff Boles, Contributor

      Vendors tout dollars per gigabyte per I/O, but figuring out what a data storage system will really cost your company is a much more complicated process.

    • “Big data” conspiracy theories abound by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director

      Could the latest and greatest buzzword in the storage biz be killing off some of the most useful storage technologies around?

    • Storage networking alternatives by Dennis Martin

      All the old standards -- FC, iSCSI and NAS -- are still going strong, but FCoE and virtualized I/O are waiting in the wings to help remake our storage networks.

    • Status report: Solid-state storage by Phil Goodwin, Contributor

      Solid-state storage has carved out a niche in the storage ecosystem, establishing itself as a viable alternative for high-performance applications.

    • Occupy Storage! by Jon William Toigo

      Data storage technologies keep getting better, but storage vendors may just be up to their old tricks.

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      Cloud backup services have seen increased adoption by SMBs, but with a choice of methods and tighter controls, cloud backup is now also a viable enterprise alternative.

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