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Caching in Flash the Wrong Approach Argues Hybrid Storage Vendors
“Caching data in flash is not the right approach,” said hybrid storage vendor Tintri CEO Kieran Harty at the start of a panel discussion in the Cube at VMworld 2012. “Ninety-nine percent of reads and writes should be on flash with only cold data stored on disk.” The read-cache only approach, introduced by EMC and ...
SSD Storage, Virtualization Demand Converged Infrastructure says HP’s Nunes
“When you look at what flash is doing to storage and how virtualization changes the data center, how can it not be converged?” asked HP VP of Storage Marketing Craig Nunes in the Cube at VMworld 2012. “Otherwise you are still trapped in the traditional IT silos, which means everything is less efficient and you ...
NetApp Misses the Strategic Direction with Read-Only Flash Cache
NetApp’s August 21 Flash Accel read-only flash cache announcement is good as far as it goes, but it is a tactical product that misses strategic direction, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert, “NetApp adds Server Flash Cache to its Arsenal – but misses Strategic Flash Direction.” The Alert provides a full ...
Wake Up Call: VMware Must Move Beyond the Usual Suspects for New Storage Ideas
The just-published Wikibon vSphere 5 adoption survey holds good news for EMC but a warning for VMware. Market interest in traditional storage vendors is waning, and while companies are not leaving their primary vendor, they are looking hard at innovative “hybrid” storage startups such as Nimble Storage and Tintri. That, says Wikibon CTO David Floyer, ...
VSphere 5 Takes Big Step in Integrating Storage Management
As virtualized environments move from trials to production environments and grow across data centers, integrating storage management with virtualization layer managers, and specifically vSphere, has become a vexing issue. With vSphere 5, VMware has tried to solve this problem with some success writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “VSphere 5 Storage Integration Chips Away at ...
VSphere 5 Adoption Higher than Expected, 88% of Users Happy [Report]
A just-published Wikibon survey of vSphere users with a focus on virtualizing storage found greater adoption rates for vSphere 5 than expected and found most respondents happy with the new version. In his summary of the results, posted on the Wikibon site, Consultant Ralph Finos, who conducted the study for Wikibon, wrote that 60% of ...
Wikibon Survey Shows Growing Interest in Alternative Hypervisors
The Wikibon survey on virtualization, although focused on vSphere adoption and VMware use in general, also provides some evidence of growing interest in other hypervisors among VMware users, says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his new Alert “VMware’s hypervisor hold may be waning”. This year’s survey, for the first time, included a question asking what ...
VMware Users Still Favor FC over NFS, 10 G Ethernet Survey Shows
VMware has always tried to remain agnostic toward storage area network (SAN) protocols, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his Professional Alert “VMware vSphere 5 Users Move Beyond the Storage Protocol Debate”. Wikibon’s just published 2012 VMware user survey did, however, ask what storage network protocols its respondents are using. With the growth in Big ...
VDI Could be a Killer App App for Converged Infrastructure, but That’s No Guarantee of a VDI Hockey Stick
Judging from the latest figures on what is running on converged boxes, VDI could be the killer app for converged infrastructure products writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Professional Alert, “Is VDI the Killer App for Converged Infrastructure”. Some 70% of Cisco/NetApp FlexPod installations are running VDI either as their only application or ...
CloudPhysics Works Big Data for Managing Complex, Virtual Environments
Data center virtualization creates compelling financial advantages mainly by increasing average server utilization from an average of 15% in non-virtualized environments to 85%+. However, it also has created increasingly complex environments as virtualization grows in data centers in which the addition of a new VM or changes to underlying infrastructure can create unintended issues throughout ...