All-flash is no longer the future of storage — it’s the present. The adoption of all-flash storage arrays has accelerated greatly in the past year, with sales totaling nearly $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2019. Greater reliability, reduced power consumption and simplified management are three major reasons why organizations are moving to flash….

Sometimes, instead of evolving slowly, technology takes a giant leap forward. When this happens for one part of IT, everything else effectively becomes a bottleneck, and further changes must take place to bring the rest of the IT environment up to the new standard of performance. This has happened recently with storage. After flash storage…

A recent (automated for most users) update to Adobe Flash Player embedded within the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox browsers causes the VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x (all versions) to crash and not load. There is no fix as of today, as Adobe is working on a new Flash version to publish, but there…

Organizations in a variety of sectors have watched helplessly in recent years as technology-powered upstarts reinvented the rules of their business. Hotels have lost market share to services such as Airbnb. Uber and Lyft have knocked the taxi industry on its heels. And services such as Netflix pushed traditional video stores to the brink of…

The most pressing demands of data centers in 2017 can be summed up in two words: simplicity and performance. Data center managers are seeking to reduce complexity while shrinking the barriers between data and the customer. A key part of this initiative is replacing the mechanical disk with solid-state drives (SSDs). In fact, data center…

“Game changer” is a term that gets used with enthusiasm in our industry. The new 3D technology from Intel and Micron will likely prove to be game changing in hindsight as much as it seems in foresight. To get a closer look, let’s separate the two 3D technologies.