Gartner Critical Capability

Growing investments in Mode 2 IT projects and cost reduction efforts in core enterprise workloads are driving the demand for object storage. Here, we compare 12 object storage products against seven critical capabilities in use cases relevant to infrastructure and operations leaders.

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The Need for Hybrid Cloud Object Storage

This executive brief discuses how to manage exponential, largely unstructured, data growth for business advantage. In a new world of data that must be accessible and collaborative, hybrid cloud object storage delivers a flexible, scalable and simple approach to efficiently manage exponential growth.

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DCIG Hybrid Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide 2016-17

Compliments of Unitrends. DCIG's analysts have done the heavy lifting for you. This Buyer's Guide evaluates the full range purpose-built backup appliance product capabilities, including features that enable the long-term retention of backups in the cloud and even application recovery in the cloud.
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Justifying Investment in All-Flash Arrays

This independent study from IDC looks at the economic benefits of flash deployments from a business perspective. It provides essential guidance for IT decision makers and also highlights scenarios where flash may not be the best choice.
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2016 Magic Quadrant for Solid State Arrays

Solid-state arrays have matured beyond performance-oriented workloads, and the benefits are now compelling for all primary storage plus old and new unexpected workloads. This Magic Quadrant will help IT leaders better understand SSA vendors' positioning in the market.

Gain insights into the rapidly evolving market for solid-state arrays with this Gartner report. Discover vendor strengths and the criteria that must be met to be positioned in the leaders’ quadrant.

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The 3-Stage Journey to the All-Flash Cloud

CIOs and other leading IT decision makers are striving to deliver cloud economics and agility from their on-premises infrastructures. Using all-flash storage is a key step in building a modern cloud data center. This white paper will guide you through the steps required to make this journey successfully. It discusses the benefits of all-flash storage and workloads that benefit the most from both flash and cloud services. Readers will learn which workloads to target first, how to achieve greater consolidation, and how to automate their all-flash cloud.
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Flash Storage Buyer’s Guide

Even if you haven't deployed flash in your infrastructure yet, chances are, in the next year it's likely to happen. To help you get started, we developed a comprehensive, vendor-neutral Flash Storage Buyer's Guide. The purpose of this guide is to provide a basis for evaluating and selecting the best flash storage solution for your business.

This buyer’s guide covers:

  • What you need to know about flash memory
  • The different classes of all-flash storage
  • Buying criteria for all-flash storage
  • How all-flash can simplify storage operations
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eBook: Enterprise DBAs on Flash – Real Stories

Tech pros seek insights and share unvarnished opinions in independent forums all over the web. That’s where this Real Stories project & research started. This report is drawn entirely from Pure Storage Real Users’ words, observations and experiences. All Stories are used with permission.
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All-Flash Systems for Oracle

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.
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Flash Accelerated and Cloud Ready: New Storage Requirements for Enterprise Apps

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.
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Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Flash Storage

Enterprise applications are the lifeblood of IT. We rely on them for everything from optimizing manufacturing to tracking customer satisfaction. This paper examines the criteria for selecting flash storage in support of enterprise applications and makes recommendations based on the strengths of each flash system. Explore how to align enterprise application performance, management, and growth with business priorities through the use of connected flash storage systems.
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Moving Toward the All Solid-State Storage Data Center

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.
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Evolution of NetApp Flash Storage

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.
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