DCIG is Updating its All-Flash Arrays Research
February 16, 2023
The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) is updating its research into all-flash arrays.
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Hardware-defined Storage is Dead
July 16, 2020
Enterprises, regardless of their size, largely agree they want any storage solutions they deploy to deliver flexibility. They may look for this flexibility in multiple ways to include its availability, performance, reliability, replication, scalability, self-healing or self-tuning capabilities, and more. However, as they choose storage solutions that deliver the flexibility they need and want, another truth quickly becomes evident. Hardware-defined storage is dead.
DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide Now Available
July 9, 2020
DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of the DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide. This Buyer’s Guide helps organizations assess the enterprise all-flash array marketplace and identify which array may be the best fit for their environment
Five Important Advances in All-Flash Array Technology
June 25, 2020
DCIG recently updated its research into enterprise all-flash arrays and will soon publish the DCIG 2020-21 Enterprise All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide. As we reflect on what has changed since we published the prior edition in 2018, five advances seem especially significant. Any business planning to refresh its storage infrastructure should take these advances into consideration.
Four Advances in Storage Technology that are Redefining High-End Storage
March 6, 2020
If your mental image of a high-end storage array is rack after rack full of blinking lights, you would be right only 30% of the time. Today, nearly half of all high-end storage array models support configurations that fit into less than 8RU—that is just fourteen inches of rack space. How can this be?
Six Implications of the IBM FlashSystem Announcement
February 13, 2020
IBM announced a new family of FlashSystem storage systems on February 12. The announcement has several implications for the enterprise storage marketplace.
The “Me-first” Component of Pure Storage’s Cloud Block Store
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage’s most notable announcement at its 2019 Accelerate conference concerns its new Cloud Block Store offering. On the surface, this may look like a “me-too” offering. It is anything but. Rather, it represents a “me-first” moment for Pure Storage. Cloud Block Store creates a new benchmark for measuring how vendors deliver their storage volumes in the cloud.
Nanoseconds, Stubborn SAS, and Other Takeaways from the Flash Memory Summit 2019
August 8, 2019
Every year at the Flash Memory Summit held in Santa Clara, CA, attendees get a firsthand look at the technologies that will impact the next generation of storage. This year many of the innovations centered on forthcoming interconnects that will better deliver on the performance that flash offers today. Here are DCIG’s main takeaways from this year’s event.
DCIG Will Provide Update on All-flash Array Advances at Flash Memory Summit 2019
July 30, 2019
Flash Memory Summit is the world’s largest storage industry event featuring the trends, innovations, and influencers driving the adoption of flash memory. DCIG will again present at the Summit this year. DCIG’s presentation will draw from its independent research into all-flash arrays and the Competitive Intelligence that DCIG performs on behalf of its clients.
Fast Network Connectivity Key to Unlocking All-flash Array Performance
July 18, 2019
The current generation of all-flash arrays offers enough performance to saturate the network connections between the arrays and application servers in the data center. In many scenarios, the key limiter to all-flash array performance is storage network bandwidth. Therefore, all-flash array vendors have been quick to adopt the latest advances in storage network connectivity.