#All-FlashArray

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All-Flash Array Market Growth Prospects and Development Opportunities, 2025

Global all-flash array market is expected to grow at a significant CAGR of 13.23% in the upcoming period as the scope and its applications are rising enormously across the globe. An all-flash array (AFA) is also termed as a solid-state storage disk system, is an exterior storage array that uses flash media for persistent storage. Flash memory is exclusively used instead of the spinning hard disk drives (HDDs). Vendors allow consumers to mix flash and disk drives in the similar chassis, an outline termed as a hybrid array. 

The factors that are playing a major role in the growth of all-flash array market are they are easy to maintain and install, the high-performance computing, the rising demand of all-flash array in the data center, and enhance the efficacy of primary storage array workloads. However, the high cost and unexpected drive failure may restrain overall market growth in the years to come. All-flash array market is segmented based on the storage system, enterprise, industry vertical and region. 

Software-defined storage, direct-attached storage, storage area network, network-attached storage, unified storage, and cloud storage are the storage system that could be explored in an all-flash array market in the forecast period. Based on organization size, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises could classify the market in the forecast period. The market may be categorized based on industry verticals like energy & utilities, BFSI, retail, IT & telecommunication, healthcare, government & defense, manufacturing, transportation, and others could be explored in the forecast period.

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Globally, North America accounted for the substantial market share of the all-flash array and is estimated to lead the overall market in the years to come. The reason behind the overall market growth could be the rising use of enhanced technology and the presence of key manufacturers in this region. The United States is a major consumer of the all-flash array in this region. 

Europe and the Asia Pacific are also estimated to have a positive influence on future growth. Europe is the second largest region with significant market share. However, Asia Pacific is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR in the forecast period. The reason behind the overall market growth could be the growing awareness among end-users regarding the advantages of flash-array. The developing countries like India and China are the major consumers of the all-flash array in this region. 

The key players of all-flash array market are IBM Corporation, Pure Storage, Inc., NetApp Inc., SanDisk Corporation, Kaminario Inc., Seagate Technology LLC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, EMC Corporation, Dell Inc., and Hitachi Ltd. These players are concentrating on inorganic growth to sustain themselves amidst fierce competition. 

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Pure Storage FBAP_002 Practice Test Questions

Are you worried about how to pass your Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional FBAP_002 exam?  PassQuestion FBAP_002 Practice Test Questions are designed on the pattern of actual test in which each and every topic of real exams are discussed in detail. It will definitely help you to pass Pure Storage FBAP_002 exam without any help and fear of appearing in real exams. You may be confident that by using our FBAP_002 Practice Test Questions, you will pass your FlashBlade Architect Professional FBAP_002 exam on the first try and become certified. You may rest assured that you will find everything you need to pass the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional FBAP_002 exam on your first try.

Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional FBAP_002 Exam

To be a Pure Storage Certified FlashBlade Architect Professional is to demonstrate professional-level knowledge of how to plan and design FlashBlade solutions. Pure Storage's Certification exams have been developed following industry best practices to strive for reliable and valid test score interpretations. This exam is designed for individuals who are currently performing or have previous work experience with the job responsibilities of a Pure Storage Certified FlashBlade Architect Professional.

Exam Information

Exam name: Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional

Exam number: FBAP_002

Exam cost: $129 (US Dollars)

Number of questions: 75

Question types: Multiple Choice (four or five options; one, two, or three correct answers)

Time limit: 120 minutes

Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional Exam Topics

Discovery 29%

Planning 28%

Designing 33%

Support and Monitoring 10%

View Online Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional FBAP_002 Free Questions

A FlashBlade is designed with a properly implemented single 4x40Gb/s LAG. During implementation, the architect is informed that the ISL on the uplink switches in broken. The customer has no budget to repair or replace it. What should the architect do? A.Divide the single LAG into one LAG per switch. B.Change out the 40Gb/s cable for breakout cable. C.Using the same LAG, create a second subnet and VIP. D.Remove all uplink from FM2. Answer: A

A customer wants to use and orchestration tool to manage the FlashBlade. How should the customer create the API key? A.Go to Settings/Users B.Go to Storage/File Systems/Details C.Run 'pureadmin' from the command line D.Run 'pureconfig' from the command line Answer: C

A customer wants to deploy AI/ML using Pure Storage AIRI reference architecture. Which model should the architect use to meet the requirements? A.An architecture that is made up of 4xUCS X220 servers, 2xCisco Nexus 9000 switches, and FlashBlade single chassis B.An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, 2xArista 7060x switches, and FlashBlade single chassis C.An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, 2xArista 7060x switches, and FlashArray //X70 D.An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, FlashBlade XFM, and FlashBlade single chassis. Answer: B

The development teams at a company are shifting to a CI/CD model of development using containers and Kubernetes for orchestration. Which Pure technology should they use? A.REST API B.CLI C.PSO D.GUI Answer: C

A current FlashBlade customer has a chip design process that is not meeting their SLAs. Although the customer is using fast remove, the IOPS on their 7x17TB FlashBlade have plateaued around 700K IOPS. What should the architect recommend adding? A.Blades B.VIPs C.LAG D.Subnets Answer: A

A customer has an existing Flashblade with 13x52TB blades in a single-chassis configuration and needs more capacity for a new application coming online in the next few weeks. The architect has determined they need an additional four blades. How many additional rack units are required to accommodate the new blades? A.12 B.10 C.6 D.4 Answer: D

A customer asks an architect to help troubleshoot low throughput in their high-performance compute (HPC) environment. All 70 HPC nodes have a single 10Gb connection to a 96 port 10Gb switch. The FlashBlade is connected to their dedicated HPC switch with 8x10Gb connections. The HPC application is using a single shared S3 bucket for the data being processed. Which change is needed to increase throughput? A.Add more uplinks to the HPC switch. B.Add more VLANS to FlashBlade. C.Add more IPs to the existing VLAN D.Add more nodes to the HPC cluster Answer: A

How many rack units does a FlashBlade system with 39 blades consume? A.12 B.14 C.20 D.39 Answer: B

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Pure Storage maakt all-NVMe storage-oplossing FlashArray//X beschikbaar

Pure Storage kondigt tijdens zijn Pure Accelerate 2018-conferentie uitbreiding van zijn FlashArray-productlijn aan, met all-NVMe Shared Accelerated Storage. Deze oplossing is geschikt voor alle workloads. Het nieuwe FlashArray//X-aanbod richt zich op het sneller maken van toepassingen zoals databases, gevirtualiseerde en gecontaineriseerde omgevingen, test/dev-initiatieven en webapplicaties. De all-NVMe FlashArray//X-familie bestaat uit vijf verschillende configuraties. Door Shared […] http://dlvr.it/QTwbsQ

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Pure Accumulator broadcast on Wednesday its FlashArray artefact band to bear cost-effective all-NVMe Aggregate Accelerated Accumulator for every workload. The new FlashArray//X ancestors makes aggregate faster – databases, virtualized and containerized environments, test/dev initiatives and web-scale applications – at no added bulk over FlashArray//M, based on able capacity.

The all-NVMe…

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NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

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NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

NetApp has recorded strong second-quarter results, with revenues of $1.52bn for the three months to 26 October, an increase of 7% year on year.

Meanwhile, Pure Storage’s third-quarter results show revenue of $372.8m, which equates to a remarkable 34% year-on-year rise. But despite its stellar revenues, Pure is still running at a loss.

A notable subtext to NetApp’s results is the contribution of all-flash storage systems, with a run rate (projected earnings for the year) of $2.2bn, which is a 29% increase on the equivalent period last year.

That figure would have been unthinkable about five years ago, when NetApp’s relationship to flash was somewhere between frosty and uncertain. At the time, NetApp executives had long declared solid state only suitable for cache and then went though a series of flip-flops on plans for flash arrays.

It is to the company’s credit that flash is now such an integral part of its offer and that it is showing so healthily in IDC’s tracker of external storage systems shipped. At the last count, it was in second place for market share at 13.5%, behind Dell EMC with 29%.

Five years ago, things weren’t so different, with NetApp showing similar market share back then – 13% on revenues of $748m for the third quarter of 2013. What is notable is that the company’s slowness in adopting a flash strategy did not seem to harm it.

Pure Storage’s performance is also outstanding, with a 34% year-on-year rise in revenues testament to the current importance of flash storage to the mainstream.

Pure’s portfolio is based around its solid state-equipped FlashArray range, which it said earlier this year will now also contain NVMe flash capability with NVMe-over-fabrics connectivity to expansion shelves.

Like NetApp, Pure has also made a push towards the cloud, with announcements this week of its Cloud Data Services that see it offer native cloud instances of the Pure Storage environment, plus replication and backup target capabilities for hybrid cloud operations.

NetApp’s cloud-oriented offerings this year have included Cloud Volumes in AWS and GCP, Cloud Volumes Ontap, Azure NetApp Files and Saas Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

And although Pure posted a gross profit of $249m, expenses (R&D, sales and marketing costs) reduced that to an operating loss of $27.2m.

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NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

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NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud

NetApp has recorded strong second-quarter results, with revenues of $1.52bn for the three months to 26 October, an increase of 7% year on year.

Meanwhile, Pure Storage’s third-quarter results show revenue of $372.8m, which equates to a remarkable 34% year-on-year rise. But despite its stellar revenues, Pure is still running at a loss.

A notable subtext to NetApp’s results is the contribution of all-flash storage systems, with a run rate (projected earnings for the year) of $2.2bn, which is a 29% increase on the equivalent period last year.

That figure would have been unthinkable about five years ago, when NetApp’s relationship to flash was somewhere between frosty and uncertain. At the time, NetApp executives had long declared solid state only suitable for cache and then went though a series of flip-flops on plans for flash arrays.

It is to the company’s credit that flash is now such an integral part of its offer and that it is showing so healthily in IDC’s tracker of external storage systems shipped. At the last count, it was in second place for market share at 13.5%, behind Dell EMC with 29%.

Five years ago, things weren’t so different, with NetApp showing similar market share back then – 13% on revenues of $748m for the third quarter of 2013. What is notable is that the company’s slowness in adopting a flash strategy did not seem to harm it.

Pure Storage’s performance is also outstanding, with a 34% year-on-year rise in revenues testament to the current importance of flash storage to the mainstream.

Pure’s portfolio is based around its solid state-equipped FlashArray range, which it said earlier this year will now also contain NVMe flash capability with NVMe-over-fabrics connectivity to expansion shelves.

Like NetApp, Pure has also made a push towards the cloud, with announcements this week of its Cloud Data Services that see it offer native cloud instances of the Pure Storage environment, plus replication and backup target capabilities for hybrid cloud operations.

NetApp’s cloud-oriented offerings this year have included Cloud Volumes in AWS and GCP, Cloud Volumes Ontap, Azure NetApp Files and Saas Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

And although Pure posted a gross profit of $249m, expenses (R&D, sales and marketing costs) reduced that to an operating loss of $27.2m.

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Pure Storage offers all-QLC storage array with updated FlashArray//CC

Pure Storage offers all-QLC storage array with updated FlashArray//CC

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Pure Storage on Tuesday rolled out updates to its FlashArray//C product, extending quad-level cell (QLC) flash technology end-to-end. The all-QLC storage array is built on Pure’s DirectFlash technology. 

QLC flash is designed to cost-effectively meet the needs of high-capacity workloads. This makes it well-suited for replacing legacy hybrid storage arrays, Pure says. Pure’s QLC-based…

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Pure Storage alza il sipario su Purity 6.0 per FlashArray

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Pure Storage alza il sipario su Purity 6.0 per FlashArray

Pure Storage ha presentato Purity 6.0 per FlashArray, la nuova versione della propria suite software. Pensati e realizzati per le necessità di aziende moderne, questi nuovi data service agili forniscono ai clienti un metodo efficiente per immagazzinare, proteggere, gestire, accedere e mobilizzare i dati mediante modelli di consumo strategici creati su misura per le esigenze di ciascuna organizzazione.

Purity 6.0 semplifica l’infrastruttura moderna grazie a una soluzione che unifica blocchi e file, progettata per aiutare a risolvere le sfide infrastrutturali come i silos e l’espansione disordinata dello storage – problemi che hanno un impatto sulle aziende moderne di qualsiasi settore. Grazie a una serie di nuovi data service agili, i clienti della società possono sfruttare immediatamente due nuove importantissime funzionalità: il supporto unificato dei protocolli NFS e SMB, e il disaster recovery attivo basato su una nuova tecnologia di replica continua. Queste funzionalità innovative sono parte del modello di abbonamento Evergreen Storage e non richiedono ulteriori licenze né costi di assistenza supplementari, né aggiungono alcuna complessità.

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“I modelli di consumo flessibili rappresentano le fondamenta della modern data experience di Pure”, ha dichiarato Prakash Darji, General Manager di FlashArray. “Abbiamo l’enorme vantaggio di averle create su misura per l’era moderna: le nostre soluzioni sono progettate per enormi moli di dati, per poter eseguire upgrade sostanziali senza interruzioni, e per essere compatibili con le innovazioni del futuro in modo che i nostri clienti non debbano mai attendere per disporre dei tool più nuovi. Purity 6.0 rappresenta il passo logico successivo nella costante fornitura di valore ai clienti: servizi che possono essere fruiti nel modo più adatto alle esigenze di un determinato cliente, in qualsiasi momento”.

Le nuove funzionalità di Pure che unificano blocchi e file su FlashArray risparmiano ai clienti i problemi e i costi che scaturiscono dal dover gestire due ambienti tra loro incompatibili; in particolare sono state progettate per semplificare le operazioni delle realtà che, ricorrendo principalmente allo storage a blocchi, hanno comunque necessità di utilizzare risorse NAS (Network Attached Storage) separate. La soluzione permette ai clienti di far girare tutti i workload all’interno dell’ambiente operativo Purity, sfruttare il medesimo data layer, la stessa interfaccia utente e lo stesso pool di capacità, e approfittare delle funzionalità di data reduction leader di mercato per cui Pure è apprezzata globalmente.

In maniera simile, la nuova funzione per la replica continua, ActiveDR, aiuta i clienti Pure ad aumentare la propria resilienza senza incorrere nei costi e nelle complessità degli add-on software per il disaster recovery realizzati da terze parti. Questa nuova tecnologia di replica attiva-passiva affronta un importante requisito di business proteggendo le applicazioni critiche con un RPO (Recovery Point Objective) prossimo allo zero. Ora i clienti hanno la possibilità di avvalersi di replica sincrona attiva-attiva con ActiveCluster, replica asincrona basata su snapshot e replica continua – e tutto sulla medesima piattaforma Purity.

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Le aziende con necessità legate a big data o machine learning continueranno ad assegnare i relativi workload a FlashBlade, ma per le altre casistiche di utilizzo e per molte realtà più piccole FlashArray risolve ora tutte le esigenze di data storage.

Purity 6.0 introduce ulteriori miglioramenti, funzionalità e soluzioni che i clienti possono adottare immediatamente, senza alcuna interruzione alla normale operatività, comprese nel proprio abbonamento Evergreen. Le principali novità di questa release comprendono:

• Ulteriori opzioni per il backup in cloud con CloudSnap for Google Cloud Platform: proposta come technical preview, questa funzionalità aggiunge la possibilità di definire come target risorse storage in cloud residenti su Google Cloud Platform, dove le copie snapshot di Pure Storage possono essere replicate – anche grazie alla loro efficienza in termini di occupazione di spazio – a scopo di riutilizzo e conservazione offsite. • Categorizzazione dei data set per una più facile identificazione grazie a tag di volume pubblici. • Protezione dei dati e controllo degli accessi mediante autenticazione RSA a due fattori e multifattore. • Pianificazione efficace dell’espansione della capacità Pure1 con preventivi in un solo click. • Protezione dei workload critici usando ActiveDR con i seguenti design convalidati: ◦ Workload virtualizzati con supporto ActiveDR per VMware Site Recovery Manager ◦ Applicazioni business critical come Microsoft SQL, Oracle, SAP e MongoDB ◦ Protezione dei dati non strutturati mediante i nuovi servizi file di Purity con le soluzioni di backup Veeam e CommVault.

Matthieu Brignone, VP channel sales, EMEA/LATAM, Pure Storage ha dichiarato: “I Partner Pure Storage hanno una grande opportunità per aiutare i clienti a consolidare la loro infrastruttura IT con funzionalità block e file combinate con la nuova release Purity 6.0. Le nuove funzionalità consentiranno ai clienti di mobilitare e proteggere i propri dati in modo semplice e veloce. I clienti avranno a disposizione una scelta più ampia e i partner che forniranno tale servizio avranno un’offerta più solida e gratificante: soluzioni semplici e scalabili che sono un abbonamento all’innovazione attraverso l’offerta Evergreen di Pure. Queste opzioni permetteranno ai partner di supportare i clienti nello sviluppo di una Modern Data Experience e di creare relazioni a lungo termine reciprocamente vantaggiose.”

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The Hard Disk is Dead! (But Only in Your Datacenter)

During Storage Field Day, one of the most interesting sessions was with Western Digital. It was a 4-hour long session, so I won’t tell you to watch all the segments (although some of them were particularly enlightening about the future of storage and infrastructure in general – If you have to pick only one watch the part about the gaming industry. I’m not a gamer, but it was really fascinating). Now, let’s focus on the hard disk!

Why Did I Say That the Hard Disk is Dead?

The hard disk drive is slow, damn slow, and flash memory is adopted for a growing number of use cases. Now, with 3D NAND and QLC, we are getting lower prices, and even if performance is not as good as it is for other types of flash-memory, additional density and overall efficiency are making up for it. In fact, the number of products adopting QLC is steadily growing. For example, Pure Storage launched FlashArray//C (where C stays for capacity-optimized) a few months ago, and startups like VAST Data are building entire new architectures on this type of media.

The presence of flash memory is quickly growing in the enterprise data center, while the number of hard disks is slowly decreasing. Flash is faster, power and space-efficient, more reliable, and manageable. It has almost all the pros, and very few of the cons. You may think that this is the end of the story. In a few years, Flash will win, and HDD will die. Well, the reality is a little bit different.

It’s All About $/GB

The hard disk will disappear from the small datacenter. No more hard drives in the houses, no more hard drives in small business organizations, no more hard drives in medium enterprises as well. These kinds of organizations will rely on flash and the cloud, or only the cloud probably!

Flash will be cheap enough for every type of active workload or application, but it is also highly likely that we will keep producing data at an accelerated rate, and we will need to store it somewhere when it becomes cold. There are three answers for that: cloud, disk, or tape.

Why did I mention tape? Am I not talking about disks here? Yes, but tape is still very part of the game. Tape has the best $/GB you can find. And all hyperscalers are avid tape consumers both for backup and cold storage. Very large enterprises still rely on tape as well, again for backup and archives that are decades old. Tape is for cold and deep storage then, while flash is for hot and active storage. How do you fill the gap between them? The hard disk is still the answer.

The industry, western digital, in this case, has robust roadmaps about disks. With new technology to increase capacity up to 50TB per drive in a few years while keeping costs very low. Disk is still a random access device, opposite to tape that is for sequential reading and writing, making information retrieval very slow. So for all the data that is cold, but not frozen, the disk will be more than adequate.

It won’t happen with a price increase, but capacity will come at a cost anyway. In fact, new technology to improve density (Shingled Magnetic Recording, for example) will come at the expense of performance and usability. Furthermore, new techniques like dual actuators will make operations more complex than today, and, last but not least, large capacity will also mean longer rebuilding times in case of a failure. It can take a week to rebuild a 14TB HDD today, think about rebuilding a 50TB one!

So, to recap very quickly, $/GB, but the hard disk is not made for you anymore.

Hard Disks are for Hyperscalers

As it happened for the tape, the disk will have a similar fate.

All the added complexity will make hard disk drives unpractical for small organizations without enough data to store in them (and we will easily pass the 1PB mark in this case). Think about that: 1PB equals to 20 hard drives, with parity and spare drives it will be 24. It provides you throughput, but very few IOPS and the risk of data loss is high due to rebuilding times. Good luck with that!

If you are not big enough to build an HDD-based infrastructure, don’t do it. Use the cloud instead! At the end of the day, it will be cheaper, and there are plenty of options out there: AWS, GCP, Azure, Wasabi, you name it! And don’t worry, it is highly likely that your data will end up in an HDD-based infrastructure anyway, the only difference is that this one will be big enough to justify its existence both in terms of $/GB, reliability and availability.

If you look at the roadmap, SMR, dual actuators, capacity, zoned storage APIs are all features designed without taking into account the needs of the small infrastructure, but they are taking this technology to the limit to satisfy hyperscaler requirements. In fact, these guys have complete control over the entire stack and can take advantage of all the functionalities I mentioned by developing the necessary components and designing the infrastructures around them.

Key Takeaways

Hard disk will disappear from your datacenter if you don’t need several petabytes of cold storage installed locally on your premises. $/GB could be good on paper, but it will be unpractical.

Scale-out storage vendors are not working to make their software efficient with next-generation hard drives (SMR, dual actuators, zones, etc.), they are concentrating on optimizing their solutions for flash, looking for balanced architectures instead of just $/GB.

The all-flash data center will become a reality, and you will store more and more of your cold data in the cloud. This means that your data will probably end up in disks and tapes anyway, it is just that it is not your problem anymore.

Disks will reach important capacities (now 18/20TB, 50TB in a few years), but again, it is unlikely that you will see one of these devices in an enterprise data center near you, and you’ll be able to use it efficiently. Primary customers of these devices will be hyperscalers and very large enterprises.

Long live the hard disk!

Disclaimer: I was invited to Storage Field Day 19 by GestaltIT, and they paid for travel and accommodation, I have not been compensated for my time and am not obliged to blog. Furthermore, the content is not reviewed, approved, or edited by any other person than the GigaOm team. Some of the vendors mentioned in this article are GigaOm clients.

from Gigaom https://gigaom.com/2020/02/03/the-hard-disk-is-dead-but-only-in-your-datacenter/

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MILANO – Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), la piattaforma storage all-flash che supporta gli innovatori verso un futuro migliore tramite i dati, è stata scelta dal Comune di San Benedetto del Tronto per guidare il percorso di Digital Transformation nel territorio. Il comune si avvarrà della tecnologia Pure Storage per semplificare e velocizzare l’interazione con i cittadini, aumentare l’offerta di servizi online a livello territoriale, diventare un comune paperless e migliorare l’esperienza e la relazione con la cittadinanza

L’efficienza dei dati gioca un ruolo fondamentale: per questo il Comune si è dotato di Pure Storage. Sulla tecnologia 100% All-NVMe FlashArray girano server virtuali per funzionalità mission-critical legate alla posta elettronica, alla gestione documentale, agli application server e alla parte di anagrafe, tributi e flussi finanziari. I workload sono distribuiti su macchine diverse, che gestiscono 8 Terabyte di dati. Dall’implementazione della tecnologia Pure, la compressione dei dati è pari ad un fattore di 3,8:1, e la riduzione dei costi dello storage si stima al 20%.

Il Comune di San Benedetto del Tronto è capofila nell’importante progetto di costituire un solo portale di servizi che servirà 64 municipalità marchigiane. Il portale in oggetto sarà dedicato ai servizi territoriali e catastali, agli Open Data, alla conservazione digitale a norma, ai pagamenti online e alla fatturazione elettronica. Il progetto, che dovrebbe concludersi nel 2020, ha richiesto un potenziamento dei sistemi informatici. Il Comune gestisce due data center, uno dei quali interamente dedicato al disaster recovery, e contribuisce a migliorare i servizi dell’area IT.

Si tratta di un’iniziativa che vanta anche profonde implicazioni sociali: tra i Comuni coinvolti nel progetto regionale vi sono anche Amandola, Force, Arquata e altri, che sono stati colpiti dagli eventi sismici negli scorsi anni. L’impegno per sostenere la rinascita di questa zona, può trovare anche nell’IT le risorse per ripartire in quanto i cittadini potranno beneficiare di una burocrazia semplificata e di un rapporto più snello con la pubblica amministrazione.

“Vogliamo diventare un punto di riferimento per gli enti della provincia, e pensiamo che il rilancio del territorio possa essere supportato anche dagli strumenti digitali – ha commentato Mauro Cecchi, Direttore Servizio Sviluppo Organizzativo e Sistemi Informativi del Comune – In questo contesto, adottare soluzioni innovative come quelle proposte da Pure Storage può davvero supportare e soddisfare le nostre richieste”.

La sfida per il Comune è quella di adeguare l’infrastruttura IT per renderla future-ready sia per la conclusione del progetto descritto sia in previsione di rispondere alle richieste dell’AgID (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale) che prevedono il passaggio al cloud per aumentare flessibilità ed efficienza ed una maggiore attenzione all’ambiente, con l’obiettivo diventare anche un ente paperless.

“Pure Storage ci aiuta a migliorare le prestazioni del sistema. Inoltre possiamo affermare che è un brand disruptive, che favorisce l’innovazione. La tecnologia all flash rappresenta una vera rivoluzione nel panorama dell’offerta IT perché garantisce l’eccellenza al giusto prezzo – continua Mauro Cecchi -vi è anche un altro aspetto rilevante, che riguarda il risparmio non solo di tempo e di lavoro ma di spazio fisico per l’hardware e il taglio dei costi di elettricità ad esso collegati. Possiamo stimare che grazie a Pure Storage abbiamo ottenuto un risparmio intorno al 20% dei costi di gestione.”.

Prima di scegliere Pure, il Comune ha valutato anche altre soluzioni, ma le performance soprattutto nella velocità d’accesso e processo oltre alla compressione dei dati sono stati un fattore decisivo per l’acquisto delle soluzioni Pure Storage. Un ulteriore elemento che ha influito la scelta è stata la facilità di installazione, fattore da non sottovalutare considerando che il Comune aveva la necessità di portare risultati in breve tempo.

“Siamo lieti di supportare il Comune di San Benedetto del Tronto nell’ambizioso progetto di innovazione intrapreso in cui il management ritiene che l’infrastruttura tecnologica contribuisca davvero a costruire un rapporto più efficiente e più dinamico con i cittadini per incidere positivamente su tutto il territorio. Si tratta sicuramente di un esempio virtuoso, davvero prezioso per la pubblica amministrazione italiana”, ha commentato Mauro Bonfanti, Regional Director Italy di Pure Storage

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Microsoft has responded by saying it’s “very surprised” by Google’s decision and claimed users of free Gmail services “are facing a situation where they might have to degrade their mobile email experience by downgrading to an older protocol.”Meanwhile, Redmond's product management senior director, Dharmesh Mehta, urged users to do some "winter cleaning" of their own. “If you want a better email, especially on your phone or tablet, it’s time to join the millions who have already made the choice to upgrade to Outlook.com,” Mehta wrote.Google and Microsoft are becoming firm adversaries on free email and online collaboration. The pair have been engaged in a battle to sign up high-profile public and private sector customers, while Microsoft this year re-branded its existing Hotmail service as Outlook.com. Pure Storage has announced its FlashArray is ready and waiting to accelerate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) applications at scale, ready to support thousands of skinny and full-fat desktops. It also join the rest of the flash start-up brigade - Greenbytes, Nimble Storage, Tintri, Tegile, Violin Memory and Whiptail - in saying flash acceleration makes VDI at scale possible, desirable, and compelling. What are you waiting for? Rip and replace those horrible desktop PCs with virtual ones.

It has a VMware-certified VDI reference architecture and a VDI starter kit, using its FlashArray, which it says is the first "production-hardened" (whatever that means) all-flash array to have a lower cost than the spinning disk, with the help of in-line dedupe shrinking VDI images to between a fifth and a tenth of their raw size. Pure claims: "FlashArray makes it affordable for every enterprise to offer their users the best all-flash VDI experience."It says spinning disk-based VDI costs $300-$500 per desktop: "Rel[ies] heavily on stateless images to constrain storage growth, fails to scale past 100s of users and ultimately eliminates the overall ROI of VDI due to exorbitant storage costs." The FlashArray with its inline dedupe brings the cost to less than $100/desktop, "less expensive than putting an SSD in a user’s laptop," Pure claims.It also says hybrid disk/flash VDI systems can have variable performance due to caching constriants.

The VDI starter kit, which installs in 15 minutes and comes in high-availability (HA) and non-HA configs, supports hundreds of users and can be expanded in increments to a fully configured FlashArray supporting 5,000 or more VDI users, both stateless and persistent. The system can be managed from vSphere.The VDI reference architecture is actually two: one for VMware, compatible with VMware View 5, and one for Citrix XenDesktop. FlashArray is an approved Rapid Desktop configuration. The Pure Storage VDI starter kit is available now and - according to Pure's VP Products, Matt Kixmoeller - "has an unprecedentedly low point of entry that easily fits within existing IT budgets” - meaning a street price well under $100,000, depending on its configuration. The All-Flash VDI Reference Architecture is available for download today from purestorage.com.Tintri has one user running 800 desktops off its 540 3U hybrid flash/disk system of eight 3TB disk drives and eight 300GB solid state drives costing somewhere around $75,000.

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Nimble Storage, a hybrid disk drive/flash array start-up, produced a VDI reference architecture with Cisco in October. It supports 1,000 VDI uses with a 3U enclosure, a Nimble CS220G-X2 array with twelve 1TB hard disk drives and four 160GB flash SSDs, costing $43,000.This is small potatoes compared to Greenbytes, whose 4TB Offload Engine can support 5,000 fat VDI clones each 40GB in size and with 2GB of swap space. Greenbytes uses deduplication and compression to get the nominal 210TB of storage needed down to 4TB.Whiptail says its all-flash INVICTA array can boot 600 VDI seats in three minutes and 47 seconds while doing other work as well. It's all-flash ACCELA arrays are being used by a Netherlands government department in a 20,000-seat VDI deployment with expansion to 40,000 seats coming. ACCELA costs $49,000 per TB suggested retail price level. A 2-node INVICTA has a $250,000 suggested price, while a fully loaded 72TB 6-node INVICTA will set you back $1.8m.

It looks at first glance as if Greenbytes, Violin Memory and Pure Storage are three all-flash array players in the same VDI scale ballpark. Have at it guys - may the best product, support and service player win. Samsung has taken an expensive legal hit from Apple over copying design elements in the iPhone. Yet with the Series 9, Samsung has created something a bit special. The entire Ultrabook concept took its inspiration from the Apple MacBook Air, of course. But Samsung's Series 9 has developed a confident design language of its own.The Series 9 Core i5 model I used – NP900X4C, to be precise – doesn't leave you much change from 900 quid if you shop around, but it is greatly improved over the model I tried almost a year ago. Indeed, it lays to rest any qualms that 'Ultrabook' inevitably means underpowered and overpriced, as you do get considerable oomph for your money.The display has been upgraded too, notching up a 1600 x 900 resolution which is a welcome sight after years of 1366 x 768 screens. The specific model inspected here uses an Intel 1.7GHz Core i5-3317U, running Windows 7 Home Premium. Since you'll want to retain your sanity, this is obviously the one to go for, as the Charge of the Metro Brigade is now upon us.

This 900X model, like its predecessor, also uses the sandblasted aluminium material with a wave-style design that resembles, but isn't, an Apple unibody enclosure. In fact, there are actually ten screws holding a bottom plate in place. Gone are the unforgivingly sharp edges I found made the previous incarnation, the 900X3A, somewhat uncomfortable to use. These are no sharper than an Apple machine.There are other changes. The most important peripheral ports are no longer hidden by a door - the USB, mini-Ethernet, HDMI, USB and audio ports are always accessible, on the left of the machine. A nice touch is the mini to regular Ethernet adapter included in the box. A bay-style housing is still present, used to cover the SD card slot when it's not in use.Software includes a backup program, a configuration manager, and Samsung's Fast Boot. Which does what it says on the tin: bringing you to the login screen in around 10 seconds. The only nagware is Norton's anti-virus software.

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Battery life was terrific in real life, giving over 5:30, and typically well over 6 hours in real-life usage, with WiFi on. The display is, as you would expect from Samsung, quite splendid, and as close to matte as you can get these days without actually buying a ThinkPad.The only let down is the keyboard. This is fine by any other standards - but it has a rather tinselly feel, and in such an otherwise well-made machine, was a little incongruous. I should stress, I've used many worse keyboards. And I did like the illuminated indicator light inside the keys for CapsLock and Wi-Fi. Why has it taken laptop manufacturers 30 years to include this on laptops, when regular keyboards have had this for so long?All in all, the Series 9 is a very well made laptop, with many small but significant improvements made over a year. The question remains – do you want to throw approaching a grand at a 15in laptop when you can get one cheaper? When I posed that question a year ago, those willing to make the investment appeared to be professionals who need to make a statement: a salesman or business owner pitching for some big contract. But it's a question that's much easier to answer this year: the matte-ish expansive screen, slimness and excellent construction make it a very good piece of kit with a broader appeal. Even more so with Windows 8 coming in, so it's worth shopping around for a bargain.

Something for the Weekend, Sir? In flagrant negation of the forces of nature, I seem to be growing less clumsy as I get older. That is, I break fewer things and do it less often.This is partly the result of a series of conscious decisions to be more careful. One such was choosing to don my spectacles before making breakfast rather than after, thus cutting back on my annual expenditure on replacing broken tumblers, bowls, teapots and mugs.Another was after my first experience of receiving an item of hardware for review that had previously been tested by a rival computer magazine. When this happens, you can all but guarantee that, apart from the core product itself in a crushed and torn box, everything that was originally supplied in that box will be missing: cables, adapters, power supply, installation CDs, user manuals and even the moulded polystyrene packing.If it’s a printer, the cassette will be cracked and manual paper tray snapped off. If it’s a display, it’ll be scratched. If it’s a computer, someone will have uninstalled the operating system and stolen the recovery CD.

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Cody Hosterman, Technical Director at Pure Storage, gives an overview of virtual volume support on FlashArray //X. Their emphasis on this was to make virtual volume set up as simple as possible across all aspects. This includes an architectural overview showing what exactly happens with a virtual volume is created. He then goes through a […]

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Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives

FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year from ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content http://ift.tt/2oXZlnD via IFTTT

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Pure Storage launches FlashArray//X with NVMe drives

FlashArray//X has NVMe drives but end-to-end storage-to-host NVMe connectivity will have to wait for an NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf) version planned for release later this year from ComputerWeekly: All Computer Weekly Content http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450416712/Pure-Storage-launches-FlashArray-X-with-NVMe-drives