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Milliman on using adaptive flash to cut costs
With the development of adaptive flash by Nimble, the options for companies that use their storage solution are dramatically opening up. John Furrier and David Floyer of theCUBE were joined by Ryan Miller, technology architect at Milliman, at the Nimble Adaptive Flash Launch where Floyer and Furrier questioned Miller about how Nimble’s current slate of ...
Nimble helps eMeter do away with performance issues | #AdaptiveFlash
eMeter, based out of San Mateo, California, makes software to help manage smart meter and smart grid technologies. This enables gas, electric, and water utilities to better serve their customer base by helping to manage the data generated by the companies’ meters, turning it into usable data. Recently, eMeter began utilizing data storage solutions offered ...
Nimble’s place in the flash market | #AdaptiveFlash
As a player in the flash market since its inception, and in an attempt to meet customer needs, Nimble has developed several innovative applications. Product options include the company’s adaptive flash array storage solution, as well as InfoSight, the program that helps Nimble customers manage their data, keeping it secure until they need to access ...
The philosophy behind Nimble adaptive flash
At the recent Nimble Adaptive Flash Launch, Nimble announced an evolution of its adaptive flash array, giving companies more options when using a cloud solution for data storage. Not only do adaptive arrays make it easier and faster to access data, they can also be customized so that users only pay for the storage capacity ...
The effect of Flash on legacy architectures
Flash is the new buzzword in data storage. As more and more innovations take place in the development of flash by various companies, the question arises: How does this impact their data in the cloud? To address this issue, John Furrier and Stu Miniman of theCUBE interviewed Eric Burgener, Research Director at the International Data ...
Where Nimble can make a difference : IO performance at cost
At its recent Adaptive Flash Launch, Nimble Storage, a leading flash and cloud storage company, announced adaptive flash. Adaptive flash allows for companies to adapt their flash storage solution to best fit what they need in terms of data storage. In conjunction with the announcement of the adaptive flash platform, Nimble has also developed a ...
EMC is “going to hit its targets” in cloud innovation, says analyst | #EMCworld
Since the first EMC World in 2010, EMC has made many acquisitions to help bolster its offerings to its customers. This includes moving into what they call the third platform, which includes the cloud, mobile, social, and Big Data. EMC has also introduced the Federation, a conglomeration of companies including Pivotal, RSA, VMware, and EMC ...
Data’s evolving role in disaster recovery | #EMCworld
In the early days of data protection and recovery, most data was backed up to tape. The role of data at that point was as a backup in case you lost access to the data you worked with on a daily basis. Fortunately, the backup market as a whole is evolving, according to Steve Manley, ...
The software evolution for modernizing IBM’s flash storage strategy | #IBMedge
Over the last few years, companies such as IBM have begun focusing on faster storage solutions, including the cloud. With the introduction of flash technology, the storage game changed drastically. Now, not only can companies store more data, they can access it faster than ever before. At IBM Edge 2014, John Furrier and Dave Vellante ...
Flash storage report card: How was IBM graded? | #IBMedge
With flash technologies comprising the new frontier in the storage solutions market, how have big players, such as IBM, performed? A few years ago, flash was not a much-supported technology, but that has changed. Now, everyone wants in on the game. As a part of the festivities at the IBM Edge 2014 conference, analysts John ...