#data efficiency

Excel Name Splitting Made Simple: Using Text to Columns and Flash Fill or Ctrl+E

If you have a list of names in Excel that are combined into one cell, it can be frustrating and time-consuming to manually split them into first and last names. Fortunately, Excel offers two built-in tools that make this process quick and easy: Text to Columns and Flash Fill or Ctrl+E. In this tutorial video, we’ll show you step-by-step how to use Text to Columns to split names based on a…

Latest #VMworld2015 ChalkTalk Video with @KaminarioFlash "Making 3D TLC NAND Ready for the Enterprise"

3D TLC NAND promises to bring new levels of density to flash storage and with it new record low price points. The effective dollar per GB of a 3D TLC All-Flash Array could make hybrid arrays obsolete. The challenge is making sure that the system that surrounds the 3D TLC media compensates for any durability issues.

In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Kami…

New Blog by @georgeacrump "The Top 3 Deduplication Trends"

When combined with compression and thin provisioning, deduplication makes a backup disk a cost effective strategy and now makes considering a primary storage tier consisting only of flash reasonable. In our upcoming webinarPermabit CEO, Tom Cook and I will discuss the top trends in data efficiency and how it will impact the market. Below is my take on these trends. Join us for the webinar to see…

New Article by @georgeacrump "Flash Strategies for MS-SQL"

Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any addition of flash storage to that environment will improve performance, it is important to have a MS-SQL flash strategy so that the flash…

Briefing Note by @georgeacrump "Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth"

Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems were DRAM only. But Kaminario has been on a steady path to the more mainstream data center, especially in 2014, by adding data efficiency features,…

Storage Short by @georgeacrump "Performance of a Cache Miss"

One of the most common questions we get asked by customers considering a hybrid arrays is “What is my performance going to look like if there is a cache miss and data has to come from the hard drive tier”. In this one minute storage short, we answer that question.

That was just one of the questions we asked during our recent webinar…

Latest SlideShare - How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array

One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price per GB of the mixed flash and hard disk architecture? What if you can have both? In this webinar learn how to get predictable performance from your…