data storage

Driving competitive advantage with real-time applications, enabled by SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

This benchmark report, the Data Genomics Index, encompasses a community of like-minded data scientists, industry experts, and thought leaders together with the purpose of better understanding the true nature of the unstructured data that we are creating, storing, and managing on a daily basis - a report on real storage environments’ composition.

5 tips in crafting a storage strategy that delivers high performance, cost efficiency, and management simplicity that modern healthcare IT needs.

Here’s a handy checklist you can use in evaluating how well your healthcare data storage strategy holds up.

This white paper describes Cisco HyperFlex™ HX Data Platform Software, which revolutionizes data storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments.

Would you like to accelerate your database application development by up to 50%? It’s easy with NetApp® all-flash technology. Watch this two-minute video to learn how flash storage can help you respond faster to change and keep pace with the dynamic demands of your business.

This e-book addresses common misconceptions about enterprise flash storage, providing clarity for anyone using or considering flash in enterprise environments. Learn about old myths laid to rest and the reality of how enterprises can make full use of their flash storage investment.

Are you building a business case for replacing disk systems with all-flash? Read this paper to find out what enterprise users are saying about their own experiences with all-flash storage. Findings are based on over a dozen different product reviews.

In competitive business environments, speed is a key differentiator. IT organizations worldwide have realized significant value in transitioning from traditional disk to flash-based storage architectures, paving the path to making businesses more responsive and ultimately more competitive. Learn how to transform traditional IT with high-speed data delivery while reducing the costs and risks.

The technical and financial advantages of solid state drives are driving a rapid transition from hard disk-drive (HDD) and hybrid-flash array (HFA) storage systems to all-flash arrays (AFAs). The white paper identifies some of the key considerations for evaluating all-flash storage infrastructure for three major uses cases: standalone applications, virtualized applications, and next-generation cloud services.

Flash storage is taking the enterprise market by storm. With all-flash arrays (AFAs) now available from every major enterprise storage vendor, they are quickly becoming a mainstream general purpose deployment platform for mixed workloads. According to IDC, flash technology will come to dominate primary storage platforms by 2020. Read this independent whitepaper to learn what sets the NetApp AFF apart from other AFAs on the market, and discover why IDC describes the AFF as “the crown jewel” in the NetApp portfolio of all-flash storage solutions.

Everybody knows all-flash storage is faster than disk, but that’s just part of the story. Early adopters are raving about the other benefits, too, including big savings in IT time and resources. Download the Top Three Benefits of All-Flash Arrays to learn more.

How has flash evolved over the years? This infographic takes you from the invention of flash memory in 1980 to its introduction in storage systems in 2008 to where we are today: an all-flash platform that supplies flexible, independent scaling of both capacity and performance.

Gartner: Moving Toward the All Solid-State Storage Data Center Are you only using solid-state arrays for your primary data? If so, you’re missing out on the benefits flash can deliver to other applications, such as active archives, data lakes, and big data infrastructures. In this independent report, Gartner finds that progressive I&O leaders are already moving toward an all solid-state data center and predicts that others will soon follow. Read the report here.

NetApp closely ties its product development and portfolio to match its customers' real-world application needs; to support tangible business-level value. NetApp has a full portfolio of products that support customer needs ranging from brute horsepower to data management-rich sophistication. Read about driving business value from flash-optimized storage.

For customers looking to implement flash for primary data center storage, NetApp's All Flash FAS systems offer some significant advantages over competitive offerings. Customer can deploy All Flash FAS arrays for specific applications now and later extend them to private and hybrid cloud-based applications as enterprise IT's longer term strategy dictates. Read this technology insight paper on investing strategically in all flash arrays.

Consolidating to a flash-optimized infrastructure results in 50% to 80% fewer drives being deployed. This, along with the need for high performance and agility, has propelled flash to have one of the highest growth rates within the storage industry. Learn how the combination of flash-optimized architectures and cloud have changed the storage requirements for mixed workloads that are common among most organizations.

With data center budgets under enormous pressure your investment decisions matter more than ever. Download the at-a-glance guide and get insights into: •How to de-risk storage buying decisions •Why Kaminario all-flash is different •What this means for customers like utility company COBB EMC.

The increasing demands of application and database workloads, growing numbers of virtual machines, and more powerful processors are driving demand for ever-faster storage systems. Increasingly, IT organizations are turning to solid-state storage to meet these demands, with hybrid and all-flash arrays taking the place of traditional disk storage for high performance workloads. Download this white paper to learn how you can get the most from your storage environment.

With capacity demands growing constantly, storage environments must take advantage of both spinning-disk and flash technology. For decades, data center managers have faced a constant struggle to efficiently store and retrieve the massive amounts of information that their facilities collect, create and serve up to users. Being able to store and retrieve data quickly and cost-effectively is paramount to running a successful data center. But as the amounts of data that organizations store and retrieve grow at exponential rates, the challenges become thornier. Download this white paper to learn more!

As data volumes grow, you need more than just storage space. Let us help you orchestrate a solution that brings you the scalability and agility you need to move your organization forward. Storage needs are changing rapidly, and legacy appliances and processes just can’t keep up. Old systems are running slowly and filling up fast. At CDW, we can help you evolve your storage with a smart solution that’s ready for what lies ahead.

Download this asset to learn CRM and BI solutions can help you deliver insights to meet those expectations. They’re not just for the enterprise anymore – but to make the most of them, you’ll need plenty of compute power and scalable data storage. Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®

This document describes Cisco HyperFlex™ HX Data Platform Software, which revolutionizes data storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments. You’ll learn about the platform’s architecture and software-defined storage approach, and how you can use it to eliminate the storage silos that complicate your IT infrastructure.

Organizations looking to implement desktop and app virtualization traditionally play a guessing game where storage is concerned. When considering local and physical storage, determining what would be necessary for the virtualized world is difficult and can be overwhelming. This is especially true when determining how virtualizing desktops will impact the storage architecture. Organizations risk over sizing their environment thereby wasting CapEx, or under-sizing and potentially ruining the user experience. Software-defined storage solutions, such as VMware Virtual SAN, provide simplified solutions with high performance data stores that offer fine-grained scalability with linearly-predictable performance as demand grows. Dell’s validated and certified desktop virtualization solutions incorporate vSphere and Virtual SAN, and provide a complete end-to-end solution that allows companies to grow and expand without large capital investments in SAN hardware.

In a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, compute, networking, and shared storage are delivered from Dell 13G PowerEdge servers powered by Intel Xeon processors, which enables a pay-as-you-go, aff?ordable model to cost-effectively operate at high performance.