Splunk SmartStore on Pure Storage: Simple, Efficient & Accelerated
SmartStore is their next-generation architecture from Splunk® designed to help turn data into action for ITOPs, SIEM, IOT, and business analytics. SmartStore delivers operational simplicity, agility, and infrastructure cost reduction. When paired with Pure Storage FlashBlade™, SmartStore gains accelerated search capabilities and increased storage efficiencies. Also, FlashBlade is future proof for Splunk, enabling customers to […]
Storage Field Day 6 visits Pure Storage
Last week Stephen Foskett and a host of delegates visited the Bay Area for Storage Field Day 6. The crew stopped by Pure Storage to catch up on our vision and direction, whiteboard on the architecture of Purity OE and FlashArray, and our perspetive on asking the right quesitons when considering an all-flash array. Videos […]
Comparing and Contrasting All-Flash Arrays
Recently I shared how EMC’s entry into the All-Flash Array market provided both market clarity and likely would accelerate the adoption of All-Flash Arrays (AFAs). Most found the post accurate and a fair representation of how the market is divided between performance-focused and storage-efficient AFA architectures. The performance capabilities and datacenter/environmental benefits of All-Flash Arrays […]
Simple Versus Complicated – Verified
One day after sharing with you my customer engagement where we discussed provisioning ‘Storage for Desktops – Simple VersusComplicated‘ I was informed of a post from another storage vendor that verified my premise. While my post discussed 500 desktops with VMware View and the latter covered 1,000 with Citrix XenDesktop, the information I shared relating […]
Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated
I’ve had some great meetings with a number of customers this week and in one of them they were very interested in understanding NetApp’s value proposition with VMware View. They were specifically interested in understanding how NetApp could deliver high levels of storage I/O from a dense, and cost-effective, storage footprint. As a point of […]