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…
Better High-Availability During Pandemics
IT professionals need better high-availability during pandemics like COVID-19. Better high-availability (HA) is the ability to continue operations, at full performance even with failed hardware. COVID-19 and any future pandemics lead to work from home orders and that means data centers become truly ‘lights-out’. That work from home order also includes storage administrators who can’t…
Benchmarking Optane Performance
When we created the All-Flash Array.next (AFAn), we knew that benchmarking Optane performance was our biggest challenge. What makes the AFAn special is how it leverages both Intel® Optane™ and Intel® QLC to deliver high performance at a price less than the typical all-flash array. The uniqueness of the AFAn is also what makes benchmarking it such a…
Optane Performance Lowers Storage Costs
Despite the per drive price, Optane performance lowers storage costs and the cost of application infrastructures. The problem is that most vendors sell Optane as an expensive alternative for fringe performance use cases, installed directly in servers, not in a shared storage system. Vendors of enterprise shared storage systems largely ignore the technology because they…
Using Optane to Lower VMware Costs
Did you know that you can use Intel® Optane™ to lower VMware costs? When used correctly, a VMware professional can use the technology to do more than lower storage costs. With Optane™, they can also lower VMware software licensing, physical server, and operations costs. The problem is that most storage solutions, including VMware’s vSAN, don’t use Intel® Optane™ correctly….
Repeal the Deduplication Tax
IT professionals need to demand that storage vendors repeal the deduplication tax so organizations can finally benefit from the ever-decreasing cost of technology. The deduplication tax is a byproduct of executing a very heavy algorithm, in-line, to extract maximum capacity from storage media. Storage systems with deduplication require much more powerful storage servers and more…
ROI of Affordable Storage Performance
When using the StorONE Enterprise Storage Platform, you may find that you can afford more performance than you need. The ROI of affordable storage performance is IT can stop worrying about meeting the performance expectations of application owners and users. The affordable performance ROI also delivers the untold hours per day IT spends trying to…
Is Your All-Flash Array Underachieving?
Did you know that most all-flash arrays don’t deliver anything close to the performance potential of the drives installed in them? Underachieving all-flash arrays (UAFA?) are the result of vendors taking a shortcut to the market. They use inefficient open-source file systems and code for the foundation of their storage solutions. The problem is that,…
Friendly Honest Storage Pricing
In his recent blog, “Democratizing Enterprise Storage Pricing,” Chris Evans stated “that in his opinion, customers want friendly, honest storage pricing.” We couldn’t agree more, and that’s why we created our TRUprice storage pricing tool. It ends price haggling and allows our customers to see the benefits of storage efficiency in terms of dollars. Friendly,…
ROI of Storage Efficiency
For the first time, IT professionals can see the ROI of storage efficiency thanks to StorONE’s TRUprice. The number one question we get when people try out TRUprice is how StorONE can sell enterprise-class storage solutions so inexpensively? We are, after all, using server hardware and media from leading manufacturers. The answer is we create…
What is TRUprice?
Today, we announce StorONE TRUprice and have put the rest of the storage industry on notice. Storage is far too complicated and far too expensive. With TRUprice, StorONE is the first storage vendor to publicly publish the price for a complete turnkey enterprise storage system. You don’t have to fill out a form or wait…
