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Solid State Storage Adoption in the Enterprise – Study Overview

April 9, 2018

Published April 9th, 2018. A free overview of our research study, "Solid State Storage Adoption in the Enterprise". Includes a list of vendors reviewed, study synopsis and a full table of contents. Download the study now!

Lab Insight: Application Performance with Multi-Tiered Storage

April 9, 2018

Published April 9th, 2018. This Lab Insight reviews testing results of HPE MSA 2050 in use cases designed to highlight performance when accessing data from storage tiers of the MSA system. Download the free report now!

Technical Insight: Solid State Storage Performance

March 1, 2018

In this Technical Insight report on Solid State Storage performance, we discuss the performance behavior considerations for NAND Flash Memory. Download the free report now!

Technical Insight: Thin Provisioning in Storage Systems

March 1, 2018

In this Technical Insight report, Randy Kerns reviews Thin Provisioning and discusses benefits, value and implementation. Download the free report now!

Lab Insight: VMware vSAN HCI vs. All-Flash SAN – An Operational Analysis

April 15, 2017

Published April 15th, 2017. A report comparing the complexity and costs of VMware vSAN HCI and All-Flash SAN. Download the free report now!

Technical Insight: Data Reduction Estimator

August 8, 2016

Published August 8th, 2016. Randy Kerns, Sr. Strategist with Evaluator Group, provides insight on the free Evaluator Economic Tool: Data Reduction Estimator. Download the free report now!

Economic Insight: Flash Economics – Separating Purchase of Controllers from Flash Devices

August 1, 2016

Published August 8th, 2016. Randy Kerns, Sr. Strategist with Evaluator Group, provides insight on the economic decisions behind purchasing flash devices. Download the free report now!

Storage Architectures: Block and Object

June 24, 2016

Graphical display of storage access using FCoE protocols and Object access, along with an overview of the SCSI storage protocols and packet encapsulations.

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Storage Architectures: DAS, SAN, NAS, iSCSI SAN

June 24, 2016

This graphic outlines and compares I/O storage architectures for Block and File, including SAN, NAS, iSCSI SAN and DAS

Comparison of Mainframe and Open Systems Storage

June 24, 2016

This short presentation compares terminology and IO processes between mainframe and Open Systems Storage. There is a quick reference table for terminology translation.

Lab Insight: Enterprise Class Solid-State Storage Performance Evaluation

February 10, 2016

Published February 10th, 2016. Review of the IOmark-VM and IOmark-VDI benchmarks on the IBM Flashsystem V9000. Download the free report now!

Overcoming IT Limitations with Storage Federation

September 16, 2015

Evaluator Group studies how to overcome IT limitations with Storage Federation. White Paper by Russ Fellows, Sr. Analyst with Evaluator Group.

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