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Hybrid flash arrays

• Top 2019 enterprise storage arrays win Products of the Year

  Winners of the 2019 Products of the Year signal a shift from disk to flash storage arrays. Vast Data takes gold, NGD Systems wins silver and DataDirect Networks captures bronze. Continue Reading

• HPE Nimble Storage arrays

  Our Products of the Year judges give HPE's all-flash arrays high marks for built-in analytics, automation, ease of use and price-to-performance balance for midmarket enterprises. Continue Reading

• 5 tips for making flash-based SSDs work with unstructured data

  Using flash storage effectively for unstructured data requires upfront analysis of cost, capacity and performance, as well as continued tracking of a rapidly changing flash market. Continue Reading

• The challenges of flash enterprise storage and how to beat them

  Blazing fast all-flash data centers raise important issues. It's expensive to equip DR sites and then there's all that stale data. Find out how to counteract these issues. Continue Reading

• IT spending priorities for 2018 include cloud and flash storage

  More than half of respondents to our survey have larger IT budgets this year, and their storage spending is focused on ways to manage massive data growth. Continue Reading

• Demystifying the hybrid storage array buying process

  Hybrid flash storage offers numerous benefits over using just SSDs or HDDs. Learn how to assess your organization's needs for a hybrid storage array and how to evaluate the different hybrid arrays to find the right fit.Continue Reading

• Leading hybrid storage arrays offer flexibility, scalability

  By examining how leading hybrid storage systems address scalability, system management and company size, your organization can select the array that will best meet its needs.Continue Reading

• Hybrid storage array vendors offer simplicity, ease of use

  Although hybrid arrays are similar in functionality from one system to another, subtle differences in features can make one array more appropriate for a given application.Continue Reading

• Factors to consider before evaluating hybrid storage systems

  The right hybrid flash storage can help an organization maximize its storage capacity and improve performance. Learn what factors to consider before evaluating hybrid storage arrays.Continue Reading

• Hybrid storage arrays join multiple storage types to cut costs

  Despite being more complex than all-flash or all-hard disk drive systems, hybrid systems offer the speed and low latency of flash and the economy of HDDs, tape or cloud.Continue Reading

• Hybrid storage arrays offer the best of all storage worlds

  Hybrid flash arrays provide performance benefits over all-flash and all-hard disk storage systems and can address the varying workload demands of today's organizations.Continue Reading

• Flash storage caching boosts application performance, requires balance

  Chris Evans discusses the benefits to caching flash storage, the trade-offs involved and flash cache models, as well as a handy cheat sheet.Continue Reading

• SSD cache performance: What is the state of the market?

  SSD caching is included with a majority of products, so vendors have turned their resources toward maximizing throughput and endurance. Discover the issues behind the innovations.Continue Reading

• What you need to know about flash caching

  Using solid-state storage as cache can boost server and application performance dramatically, but the kind of flash cache you choose is critical.Continue Reading

• Comparing network-, server- and storage-based flash caching

  George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses the variety of ways flash caching can be implemented today in this Expert Answer.Continue Reading

• SanDisk FlashSoft 3.2

  SanDisk FlashSoft 3.2 server-based caching software has advanced algorithms to identify frequently accessed data for caching on solid-state devices.Continue Reading

• VM-aware storage helps app-hosting firm manage storage without LUNs

  After struggling with LUN management, application-hosting provider Beyond Nines selected Tintri's T540 arrays for improved performance.Continue Reading

• Flash hypervisors, caching engines similar, but not the same

  There are misconceptions that flash hypervisors and caching engines are the same technology. They are similar technologies, but there are differences.Continue Reading

• Enterprise IT shops now choose SSD storage

  Despite high costs, more enterprise IT shops now choose SSD storage for their I/O-intensive applications.Continue Reading

• Week in review podcast: Tegile launches hybrid SSD arrays, Starboard offers new storage system

  Join SearchStorage.com Executive Editor Ellen O’Brien and Senior News Director Dave Raffo as they give you the inside scoop during our weekly podcast from TechTarget’s Storage Media Group.Continue Reading

• SSD caching vs. primary storage for data placement

  SSD caching and primary storage are the two main ways to implement solid-state storage technology with respect to data placement. We explain both strategies.Continue Reading