New Report – Reducing Storage Latency by putting Flash on the Memory Bus

Application performance is increasingly affected by the performance of the underlying storage, and storage performance is inextricably tied to latency. For this reason reducing latency and increasing its predictability has become the ‘holy grail’ of high-performance storage designs. And while flash is clearly the storage medium of choice, where it is placed in the storage infrastructure is now the focus.

In this report Storage Switzerland’s Senior Analyst, Eric Slack discusses how moving flash into the server was a good first step, and putting flash onto PCIe cards was another. But there is potential to reduce latency even further by placing it on the memory bus. The paper defines latency and examines steps that flash suppliers have taken to cut that latency.

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About Eric Slack

Eric is an Analyst with Storage Switzerland and has over 25 years experience in high-technology industries. He’s held technical, management and marketing positions in the computer storage, instrumentation, digital imaging and test equipment fields. He has spent the past 15 years in the data storage field, with storage hardware manufacturers and as a national storage integrator, designing and implementing open systems storage solutions for companies in the Western United States.  Eric earned degrees in electrical/computer engineering from the University of Colorado and marketing from California State University, Humboldt.  He and his wife live in Colorado and have twins in college.