DCIG Announces Calendar of Planned Buyer’s Guide Releases in the First Half of 2015
February 6, 2015
At the beginning of 2014, I started the year with the theme: “it’s an exciting time to be part of the DCIG team“. This was
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DCIG Announces Calendar of Planned Buyer’s Guide Releases in the First Half of 2015
February 6, 2015
At the beginning of 2014, I started the year with the theme: “it’s an exciting time to be part of the DCIG team”. This was due to the explosive growth we saw in website visits and popularity of our Buyer’s Guides. That hasn’t changed. DCIG Buyer’s Guides continue to grow in popularity, but what’s even more exciting is the diversity of our new products and services. This year’s theme is diversity: a range of different things. DCIG is expanding…again…in different directions.
A Modern Day Check List for Evaluating Today’s Flash Memory Storage Arrays
January 27, 2015
Flash arrays from all providers have matured significantly in the last few years. As such, most if not all flash arrays meet or exceed the
A Modern Day Check List for Evaluating Today’s Flash Memory Storage Arrays
January 27, 2015
While enterprises still need to validate and test a flash storage array’s performance and stability, the time has arrived for them to expand their evaluation to ensure that the flash storage array offers the other capabilities that they will also need in their environment. Eight other flash storage array features that should now be part of their modern day flash memory storage array check list include:
DCIG Preparing Updated Hybrid Storage Array Buyers Guide
January 5, 2015
DCIG is in the process of researching the Hybrid Storage Array marketplace with the intention of publishing the DCIG 2015-16 Hybrid Storage Array Buyers Guide in February/March 2015. This will be an update to the DCIG 2014 Hybrid Storage Array Buyers Guide that was published in November 2013. Since the publication of 2014 edition, nearly every vendor has come out with new models, warranting a fresh snapshot of this dynamic marketplace.
The Persisting Enterprise Reticence to Adopt Flash
December 12, 2014
Flash is by all estimates the future of enterprise production storage with most enterprises anticipating a day in the not too distant future where they will use flash storage arrays (all-flash or hybrid) much more broadly within their data center. Yet despite flash’s many benefits (higher levels of performance, smaller data center footprint and reduced energy consumption among others,) many enterprises still only use flash in a limited capacity if they use it at all. Today I take a look at some of the factors that still contribute to an enterprise reticence to adopt flash more broadly.
The Architecture, Database Storage Efficiency and Performance Tools of Oracle ZS4-4 Hybrid Storage Array Give It a Decided Edge in Oracle Database Environments
December 3, 2014
Hybrid storage arrays, which dynamically place data in storage pools that combine flash memory and HDDs, are rapidly expanding their market share in the enterprise space. These arrays use the latest generation of hardware – including multi-core CPUs and DRAM and flash caches – to offer high levels of performance and inline data optimization. However, the ZS4-4’s underlying architecture and its unique ability to integrate with Oracle Database 12c make it a superior storage platform to accelerate Oracle Database performance and reduce storage capacity requirements.
DCIG 2014-15 High End Storage Array Buyers Guide Now Available
October 30, 2014
DCIG is pleased to announce the release of its inaugural DCIG 2014-15 High End Storage Array Buyers Guide that weights, scores and ranks more than 100 features of thirteen (13) different storage arrays from five different storage providers.
Oracle Brings out the Big Guns, Rolls out the FS1 Flash Storage System
October 8, 2014
Dedicating a single flash-based storage array to improving the performance of a single application may be appropriate for siloed or small SAN environments. However this is NOT an architecture that enterprises want to leverage when hosting multiple applications in larger SAN environments, especially if the flash-based arrays has only a few or unproven data management services behind it. The new Oracle FS1 Series Flash Storage System addresses these concerns by providing enterprises both the levels of performance and the mature and robust data management services that they need to move flash-based arrays from the fringes of their SAN environments into their core.
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances Bring It All Together to Stand Apart from the Storage Crowd
July 11, 2014
There is literally a divergence occurring right now in data storage solutions. On one hand, a number of storage providers seek to deliver highly differentiated storage solutions that work with a broad set of applications and operating systems. On the other, a few providers focus on delivering a storage solution that tightly integrates with one or more applications to deliver unparalleled levels of application performance and ease of management. The latest Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3 Series with its new OS8.2 provide the best of what both of these categories of storage systems currently have to offer to deliver a storage platform that truly stands apart.