Exposing the High Cost of RAID
As drive capacities continue to increase and customer tolerance of data outages decreases, the high cost of RAID impacts how customers buy storage. Vendors hide most of RAID’s cost elements, making it hard to understand the real cost of protection. Exposing these costs and eliminating…
Databases Require More Than All-Flash
All-Flash Array (AFA) vendors position their hardware as the cure-all for database storage but administrators know that databases require more than all-flash. The most important requirement of any database storage system is that it must maintain data integrity, an area where most all-flash arrays fail miserably. Another database requirement is to protect data from eventual…
Are All-Flash Vendors Afraid of Tiering?
Moving less active data to a lower-cost storage tier is the best way to reduce the total cost of storage, but for some reason, all-flash vendors are afraid of tiering. Their fear of the technology is evident by their stance that all-flash is superior to Hybrid Storage, no matter the storage problem. All-Flash Array (AFA)…
Exposing the Pure Storage Cost of //C
Recently, Pure Storage announced its intention to deliver a version of their QLC only All-Flash Array (AFA), FlashArray//C (//C), for under $0.50 GB. Pure Storage does not simply publish the price of a fully configured system as StorONE does with TRUprice. When Pure briefed the leading storage industry observer, Chris Mellor, he takes the logical…
Consolidating Storage with Optane
Consolidating storage with Optane enables organizations to solve the single biggest challenge to a storage centralization project: workload diversity. Workload diversity creates a wide storage performance spectrum that most consolidation solutions can’t cover. Intel’s Optane Storage Class Memory solves that problem. It provides better performance than flash and better endurance. Storage systems that integrate Intel…
Video: Improving Storage High Availability
High-Availability, or not having a single point of failure, is table stakes for any enterprise storage system, but how the system achieves high availability can directly impact cost and, more importantly, data integrity. Because of work from home requirements caused by pandemics, traditional HA may not be enough. Since data center access is extremely limited…
Storage Consolidation is Broken
Storage Consolidation is broken. As a result, most data centers have six or more storage systems, each addressing specific use cases and requiring independent management. A storage consolidation strategy is supposed to reduce storage management costs, improve utilization, and lower costs in the long run. The reality is that a storage consolidation project rarely achieves…
New LightBoard Video: Introducing the Next Generation of All-Flash Array
The All-Flash Array.next is the first flash array to combine Intel Optane and Intel QLC with advanced storage software to deliver the full performance potential of the technology. In our latest LightBoard video we explain how the combination of advanced hardware and software can work together to enable organizations to exceed performance expectations while lowering…
Infographic – The Impact of COVID-19 on Data Centers
There has been a lot of research on the impact on COVID-19 but not much has focused on Data Center operations. StorONE’s landmark survey “How Has COVID-19 Impacted Your Data Center?” provides detailed insight as to how IT professionals are dealing with the “new normal” caused by COVID-19. Survey Takeaways Access to Data Centers is…
Beat Ransomware with Better Primary Storage
Backup can’t beat ransomware. Instead, IT professionals need to beat ransomware with better primary storage. As the recent public disaster because of an alleged ransomware attack that Garmin is experiencing proves, bad actors are still at work even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Malware attacks are on the rise since March. Partly, the increase in attacks…
The State of StorONE – Q3 Update
A Message from the CEO At the time of our previous quarterly update in April, the world was filled with question marks. StorONE braced itself for the unknown while continuing to work diligently to push technological barriers, to innovate, and to grow our team. As we enter the 3rd quarter of 2020, I am pleased…
