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Announcing the Storage Industry’s First “Fast When Full” All-Flash Performance Guarantee
X-IO Technologies announces the storage industry’s first “Fast When Full” all-flash performance guarantee Colorado Springs, Colo., April 6 2016 – X-IO Technologies today announced its ‘Fast When Full’ program that guarantees performance on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) 800 series All-Flash Storage Arrays. The guarantee states that the arrays deliver up to 200,000 IOPS at… Continue Reading
Continue Reading50 Shades of Storage, Part 2
As 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 unique way, which is ripe for me to talk about as we delve into the storage products that work well
Continue Reading50 Shades Of Storage
— 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 all SSD solutions, in the marketplace today, with the likes of Violin, Pure Storage, Nimbus, etc. There is also a… Continue Reading
Continue ReadingCloud Computing and Datacenter Automation in an Era of Efficiencies
— 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 be public where the cloud provider wants to make money on the services it provides. In both private and public… Continue Reading
Continue ReadingThe Truth About Storage, Part Four
— Storage Horizons Blog — Another myth, the second in the Five myths and Half-truths series, is that the ‘storage shelf’ or ‘drive tray’, or new ‘massively dense drive packages’ and servers with many HDDs are actually decent at preventing vibration and providing enough cooling for all the drives in the enclosure. THEY ARE NOT…. Continue Reading
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