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Over 7 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating Enterprise Flash Array Storage, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
Performance in a shared environment, mixed workloads.
API access for backups, clones, deployments to support an increasingly Agile/DevOps world
Anlaytics on usage, trends, hotspots, bottlenecks
vCenter/Hyper-V integration
Almost 8 years ago
Answered a question: IBM vs. EMC vs. Hitachi Compression
Only thing I've heard of the V9000 doing well is latency (microsecond) vs XtremeIO's "sub-millisecond" latency. IBM's previous compression is based on RISC cards and compression alone was about 2.3-3:1 for my RAC
Nimble's compression + dedupe works very well (we moved off…
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Over 7 years ago
All-Flash Storage
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I have my MCSE (Solutions Expert) in Server Infrastructure, MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate in Server 2008 and Server 2012 Administration and am working towards my MCSA SQL and VMware VCP6-DCV
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