Driving Towards a Perfect Data Center
A new dawn in data center design is here, whereby storage intelligence is being placed where it has the biggest impact – inside application servers. To that end, PernixData has set up PernixDrive™, a...
View ArticleSwimming with the Channel
I have been in technology for over 20 years, marketing everything from copper cross-connects, to wireless LANs to data acceleration software. In all that time, I have never come across a product so...
View ArticleSpeed-up VDI performance with a Flash Hypervisor
VDI is a balancing act. User demand high-perfomance from their virtualized desktops, similar to what they would get from a physical computer. But, IT needs to provide this performance...
View ArticleComparison of Write Through & Write Back
The main difference between Write Through and Write Back is the speed with which they acknowledge writes to the VM.With Write Through, a VM’s write data is sent in parallel to both the server flash...
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Why an AFA May Not Be AOK
Recently, we did a social media push using the hashtag #AFAnotAOK. The responses were very polarized, with people either loving or hating the term. Proponents loved the idea that we were pointing out...
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Bringing Clarity to the Virtual Data Center
I’m not sure when it happened exactly, but it seems like every action movie is now filmed in 3D. At some point – probably after Avatar killed it in the box office despite a painfully mediocre plot – it...
View ArticleWhen the Going Gets Tough, the Smart Optimize
IT departments are always asked to do more with less. But it is way easier to buy shiny new toys in a good economy than a bad one, which is one of the reasons why the AFA market has been so strong in...
View ArticleWhat do 3,000 CIOs have in common?
Gartner does the largest CIO survey in the world, where they speak to almost 3,000 people in 80 countries. They asked these IT leaders what their top spending priorities are for 2016, and the top...
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Analytics: Bringing Clarity to the Confusing War of Storage Words
There has never been a more exciting time to be in storage. With new applications and new media all causing data volumes to grow astronomically, storage has never been more strategic.But storage has...
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Apply the 3 Rs to gain Melinda Gates’ superpower
Recently, Melinda Gates revealed an interesting perspective on how to solve global poverty. When asked if she could have one superpower to help solve that enormous challenge, she answered “more time”....
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