— Storage Horizons Blog — What kind of data access makes up an application, and why is this important when thinking about tiering (for performance) vs. basic HSM? Application Data Attributes One of the key
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — Tiering and Hybrid Arrays: What’s the truth about these? Basic differences in performance between DRAM, SSD, HDD, and Nearline HDD (in X-IO terms) mean vastly different opportunities with respect to
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — Hybrid and SSD Arrays What are they good for and what are they not? What are enterprise hybrids? What are just SANs in a can for SMB doing HSM/ILM?! What
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — What are the specific aspects that an array can and should have, to be efficient and TCO friendly? How does ISE meet and exceed these aspects by making the “whole
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — When it comes to storage systems, the cost to build the product and the subsequent acquisition cost are only two aspects of the overall cost of owning and operating the
Continue ReadingAs I began to go down the path to describe the “50 Shades of Storage” in my last blog, I noticed a blog from David Black (see http:www.blackliszt.com/2013/03/in-storage-there-is-x-io-and-then-there-are-all-the-others.html). He talks about X-IO, in a
Continue ReadingBy Gavin McLaughlin, Solutions Development Director at X-IO It’s that time again in the storage industry. Every few years a disruptive technology causes VCs to get their wallets out and early adopters to over-spend while,
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — HDD, Hybrid HDD/SSD, Or All SSD Storage: So Many “Shades Of Grey” That It Is No Wonder People Are Confused! There is a significant amount of hype out there around
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — What’s a cloud? To me, it is an automated datacenter that can provide compute, application, and backup services. It can be a private cloud for a company, or it can
Continue Reading— Storage Horizons Blog — Another recent myth, the third in the Five myths and Half-truths series, is that RAID is dead or that RAID-6 is the answer to everything. Where did doing the math
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