Debunking SSD Myths

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	Debunking SSD Myths  By now everyone is aware of the performance leap offered by solid-state drives (SSDs) compared to hard disk drives (HDDs), but some SSD myths persist. It’s time to separate fact from fiction.Myth 1: SSDs are prohibitively expensiveAn SSD can cost more than its HDD equivalent when you look simply at the price tag for a given capacity. However, cost savings can be seen when you look at the amount of real-world performance each of your dollars buys. For example, one SSD can do the work of about 40 HDDs, but that SSD doesn’t cost 40 times as much. In fact, an SSD costs less when you consider the work it accomplishes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Make Your Data Center as Cost Effective as AWS The average datacenter is 50% more costly than Amazon Web Services. As cloud economics threaten the viability of on premise data centers, the survival of IT organizations rests solely in the ability to maximize the returns of existing infrastructure. Learn More In this Issue As Box's IPO looms, so do its challenges Ellison sings a new tune: Oracle hardware is cheapest Federal IT leaders want cloud vendors to provide clarity Hottest Enterprise Network & Computing Startups of 2015 WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Cloud: Delivering Performance in Shared Environments This whitepaper explores how service providers use VMTurbo to provide consistent performance across all workloads, as well as the three roles a responsible managed service provider (MSP) takes in order to accomplish that directive. Learn More As Box's IPO looms, so do its challenges Friday could bring a 'wild trading day' as the cloud storage company finally reaches its long-awaited milestone. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Six Ways To Re-Think Your File Movement Strategies As organizations re-think their file movement strategies, they need better visibility over files and file movements, better management of file access, and better governance of file actions. Learn More Ellison sings a new tune: Oracle hardware is cheapest Larry Ellison has opened a new front in his battle with Cisco Systems and EMC, launching new Oracle hardware on Wednesday that he claims will be the cheapest on the market.It’s a big change for Oracle, which has always emphasized performance over price. And it’s a tacit admission that Cisco and EMC may have read the market better. The purchase price of Oracle’s hardware has sometimes been an “impediment” for customers, Ellison said.The vendors all sell converged systems, which combine servers, storage, network and software into pre-built systems that can ease set-up and yield faster performance.But while Oracle has built big, powerful systems with price tags to match, Cisco and EMC, through a joint venture called VCE, sell systems that can start small and are built around lower-priced, 2-socket x86 servers. That’s not to say they’re cheap, but they’re cheaper than what Oracle has to offer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation 5 Ways Elastic Storage Provides Performance and Scalability Please Join IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. to learn how Nuance uses IBM Elastic Storage to improve the power of their voice recognition applications by managing storage growth, cost and complexity while increasing performance. Learn More Federal IT leaders want cloud vendors to provide clarity WASHINGTON -- If you're a cloud service provider, the federal government wants to hear from you.[ Related: Federal IT Leaders Look for Trust, Transparency in Cloud Vendors ]Federal agencies are actively shopping for new cloud computing technologies, but vendors will help their cause by packaging their services to be more readily implemented in a government environment that is highly security conscious and almost preternaturally cautious about rolling out new IT systems.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Hottest Enterprise Network & Computing Startups of 2015 Coming off a huge year in venture capital investing, the bar has been set high for 2015. But network and computing startups, focused in areas such as the cloud, security and mobile, promise to reap big dollars from investors this year as well. Here's a running timeline of startup investments, with an emphasis on those of interest to enterprise IT pros. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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