By Evan Unrue, Chief Technologist, IoT, Analytics & Cognitive EMEA 

 

Why is Flash's impact likely to continue to expand?

 

At the point of its entry into the market, the All-Flash Array gained its appeal through jaw dropping performance, primarily to those with specific use cases that demanded they do something different to address the high performance storage requirements, such as high performance OLTP database environments and large-scale virtual desktop deployments.

Topics: Storage

By Evan Unrue, Chief Technologist, IoT, Analytics & Cognitive EMEA 

 

Evan Unrue, Chief Technologist, IoT, Analytics & Cognitive EMEA, Technology Solutions, now part of Tech Data.

 

In the past, the economic viability of All-Flash Arrays was based primarily on cost per IO (a performance metric denoting price/performance).

Topics: Storage

 

Evan Unrue, Chief Technologist, IoT, Analytics & Cognitive EMEA, Technology Solutions, now part of Tech Data.

 

Now the All-Flash Array has developed some maturity in the market, it is important to look beyond just how blisteringly fast it is and to make your use cases based on other key features such as availability, management, flexibility and how well it will grow with your business.

Topics: Storage

Technical Lead, Cloud And DevOps Practice at Avnet Services

Middleware has been a foundation of modern web-based applications for a long time now. Middleware has evolved substantially over the years and has provided a platform for developers to develop rich distributed applications. In today’s world the richest of applications can all be easily accessed via the web and can scale to accept millions of connections, thanks in large part to middleware.  There are a variety of middleware types from application servers to message oriented middleware, all working together to provide a platform upon which developers can develop and scale applications.

Topics: Cloud Computing, devops, Storage, IT infrastructure, IT Software

Evan Unrue, EMEA Converged Infrastructure Technical Lead, Avnet Technology Solutions

Topics: Avnet, Cisco, hardware, NetApp, storage, Converged Infrastructure, Customers, Storage, business growth, business needs, Converged Infrastructure, converged systems, data storage, IT infrastructure, IT storage solutions, NetApp Insight EMEA

Steve Phillips, CIO, Avnet Inc.

Topics: Cloud, Cisco, EMC, hardware, HP, IBM, IT, Juniper, NetApp, networking, storage, apis, gartner, sddc, Storage, bimodal IT, Converged Infrastructure, data centre, Dell, Nimble Storage, virtualized environments, Software-defined data centre, Virtualisation

Steve Phillips, CIO, Avnet Inc.

Topics: Cloud, data analytics, Data Center Solutions, IT, storage, gartner, Storage, data centre, virtualization technologies, Legacy Infrastructures, Software-defined data centre, Virtualisation

 

Topics: Data Center Solutions, unstructured data, Storage, big data, flash storage, IT infrastructure, IT storage solutions, mobile computing

Wayne Gratton, EMEA SolutionsPath Business Development Director

Topics: Big Data, Cloud Computing, IBM, Storage, business needs, data deluge, data storage, IT distributor services, optimising supply chains, analysing sales data