There’s no denying that flash memory—both as a technology and as a topic of conversation—is hot right now. As enterprise organizations race to add flash as a critical component of their storage solutions, it naturally drives more press and opinion, which in turn intensifies the buzz about flash. Unfortunately, though, it appears that as the ...

IT organizations have adopted virtualization to improve server utilization, and the move is also driving changes in storage architectures. These organizations are looking beyond the traditional siloed approach to storage, in which storage is dedicated to a specific application or a small set of applications, toward shared storage architectures. Shared storage systems allow numerous applications ...