SSD News & Support Resources

September 27, 2017

HPE 3PAR StoreServ flash storage helps healthcare providers speed response time for patient care—a good reason why it earned Best of Show recognition at the recent Flash Memory Summit. For patients and their families, any time spent in a hospital environment can be a very stressful time. That’s why today’s hospitals need to be equipped […]

Microsoft Announces General Availability of the New App Service Premium Plan

September 26, 2017

Microsoft

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the new Premium plan from Azure App Service that runs on Dv2-series VMs. Azure App Service allows you to quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform. Applications and services running on App Service can meet rigorous performance, scalability, […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Google Cloud: Introducing faster GPUs for Google Compute Engine

September 26, 2017

Google Cloud

Compared to traditional solutions, Cloud GPUs provide an unparalleled combination of flexibility, performance, and cost-savings: Flexibility: Google’s custom VM shapes and incremental Cloud GPUs provide the ultimate amount of flexibility. Customize the CPU, memory, disk and GPU configuration to best match your needs. Fast performance: Cloud GPUs are offered in passthrough mode to provide bare-metal […]

AWS Releases EC2 Instances with 4 TB of Memory

September 18, 2017

Amazon Web Services

Earlier this year I told you about our plan to launch EC2 instances with up to 16 TB of memory. Today I am happy to announce that the new x1e.32xlarge instances with 4 TB of DDR4 memory are available in four AWS Regions. As I wrote in my earlier post, these instances are designed to […]

The IGEL UD Pocket. At only 3.3 grams, the world’s smallest and lightest thin client

September 14, 2017

Bas van Kaam

Being a member of various communities, the iGel Tech Insider program, in this case, has its perks from time to time. Just recently I received the (USB) iGel UD Pocket thin client (and ‘thin’ it is) for testing purposes. Don’t let its size fool you – it’s only 12.2 mm wide and 22.4 mm high, […]

VMware VMworld 2017 Session Video – Best Practices for All-Flash Arrays with VMware vSphere

September 4, 2017

VMware

VMworld 2017 SER2355BU Best Practices for All-Flash Arrays with VMware vSphere Learn more about VMware at https://www.vmware.com/?src=so_5994bdc2e4294&cid=70134000001CaZo This video is from the fine folks at VMware VMworld.

Citrix: What’s New in XenApp Essentials – Q2 CY2017

August 25, 2017

Citrix Systems

We are absolutely thrilled by the response to XenApp Essentials. It is great to see XenApp Essentials become one of the top trending apps in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. More importantly, I am happy to report that multiple Azure RemoteApp customers, who were eagerly looking forward for a replacement solution, have migrated successfully to XenApp Essentials […]

Microsoft Azure Analysis Services web designer adds visual model editing to the preview

August 24, 2017

Microsoft

Last month we released a preview of the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This new browser-based experience will allow developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly and easily. While SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) are still the primary tools for development, this new […]

Cache – The Datrium DVX Worst Case is Someone Else’s Best Case

August 22, 2017

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici

A couple of times I have been asked about caching performance with Datrium DVX. It’s intuitive for people without an understanding of the technology to think that DVX performance is contingent entirely on the host cache and if nodes go down the caches would have to be rewarmed, or a full cache integrity checks would […]

Datrium 3.0 – Surviving all Host SSD failures!

August 18, 2017

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici

I recently wrote about the new Datrium 3.0 release with blogs here and here, including the support for Red Hat Virtualization and mind-boggling performance numbers. However, during my writing, I forgot to include a new and critical feature that adds enhanced resiliency to the platform and protect the applications even is the last local flash device fails. […]

Late Night Infomercials and the Data Center

August 16, 2017

Nexenta

Today’s storage administrators are looking for the best performance for the lowest cost to satisfy their enterprise data requirements. Performance is often improved by adding more solid state drives, but these come at a cost premium. For enterprises looking to save money and resources while meeting performance requirements- data reduction is a key component in […]

Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspectives Report WekaIO Matrix

August 14, 2017

Greg Schulz

Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspectives Report WekaIO MatrixWekaIO is a scale out software defined storage startup vendor whose solution is Matrix. This Server StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective report looks at common issues, trends, and how to address different application server storage I/O challenges. In this report, we look at WekaIO Matrix, an elastic, flexible, highly […]

NVMe Wont Replace Flash By Itself They Complement Each Other

August 10, 2017

Greg Schulz

Various Solid State Devices (SSD) including NVMe, SAS, SATA, USB, M.2 There has been some recent industry marketing buzz generated by a startup to get some attention by claiming via a study sponsored by including the startup that Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express (NVMe) will replace flash storage. Granted, many IT customers as well as vendors […]