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….

Cities and municipalities face a number of tough questions as they try to provide residents with a good place to work and live. How much congestion and pollution are caused by vehicles circling the block as drivers look for a parking spot? Which intersections have the most near-miss accidents? Where is jaywalking common — and…

In my previous blog post, I provided a basic explanation of storage technology, delving into the differences between block and object storage. Both of these approaches play into the AWS service offerings. This blog post will cover the details of the storage services offered by AWS. Storage Service Offerings AWS currently offers the following storage…

Cloud providers are offering a number of innovations for deploying and developing applications. Suitable combinations of these offerings allow you to build highly performant, scalable and cost-optimized solutions in the cloud. Due to its criticality, I am going to explore many storage options available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for fulfilling different use cases. Since…

It’s a common story in IT: An enterprise is running servers that are 5, 6 or 7 years old (sometimes including equipment that is no longer even supported by the vendor), simply because there’s no room in the existing IT budget to fund an upgrade. But when organizations plan carefully, they often find that they’re…

There’s a lot to like about flash storage compared to spinning disks, including high performance, a smaller footprint, energy efficiency and more opportunities to reclaim memory. No wonder IDC expects all-flash arrays to remain one of the fastest growing enterprise storage markets through at least 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 21.4 percent….