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Despite the fact that flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) offer performance levels more than 30 times greater than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs)—as well as providing other benefits such as higher availability and reduced power and cooling requirements—the cost of flash-enabled storage systems remains a significant roadblock to widespread adoption. In the enterprise market, early adopters have largely been organizations with ample storage budgets, as well as those whose current performance needs justify the significant price delta between SSD and HDD technology. However, the prevailing perception is that there is a fit for flash-based SSDs in an overall tiered storage strategy and that usage will become more ubiquitous as prices decline.
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To protect sensitive data, many storage vendors now offer encryption capabilities with their enterprise-class systems. In spite of increasing privacy legislation and an avalanche of publicly-disclosed data breaches, most large organizations believe their enterprise storage systems are relatively well-protected and thus continue to forego encryption. Some storage vendors are now proposing self-encrypting drives for another use case: data destruction. By deleting encryption keys, these vendors believe they can help enterprises automate data destruction processes. In theory, this is true—but ESG research demonstrates that, though key deletion for data destruction may have some niche market appeal, it is not a “killer app” for storage encryption across the broad enterprise market.
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A growing number of organizations are deploying networked storage in conjunction with server virtualization to consolidate, reduce costs, and improve the flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications. IT managers choosing networked storage for virtualized environments are looking for easy and cost effective disaster recovery without sacrificing performance. This ESG Lab report presents the results of hands on testing of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, SunFire X4450 servers, and SAN-attached Sun Storage 65/6780 series deployed in a highly virtualized data center.
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and storage and information management. As such, they are frequently quoted as
industry experts in various media outlets and also serve as keynote speakers at
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