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The new Hybrid; Flash to Disk to Cloud

October 16, 2015 Matt Watts Innovating

Hybrid has evolved. When we consider Hybrid in terms of storage it’s very often in the context of mixing different media types inside the same array, which is okay for many traditional workloads but, in a world of scale out and cloud scaling, does this still make sense? Some would say that to truly make use of Flash you need[…]

You saved a little bit of money…but you lost a lot

March 17, 2015 Matt Watts Innovating

In a recent discussion with a colleague, he looks after one of our Strategic Enterprise Accounts, we got chatting about some of the ways that his account is looking to reduce costs. The one that most interested me was in Test and Development. Their view was that due to the nature of this environment being less critical than production they[…]