While flash can solve a lot of performance problems, storage is not the only reason that applications fail to meet the expectations of their users. Throwing flash at the problem will almost always help to some extent, but there are…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Flash Memory Summit Video – Understanding Your Workload Before Flash
Tagged with: Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Infrastructure, SolarWinds, Virtualization
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Posted in Blog
Flash Memory Summit Video – Which Flash is Right for Your Workload?
There are two key inflection points for the all-flash data center; when the all-flash array is purchased and during day-to-day operations. The first is before the flash array is purchased. There are a multitude of flash choices available to IT…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Overcoming Flash Confusion
At the Flash Memory Summit IT professionals have no shortage of options when it comes to implementing flash. There are all-flash arrays, hybrid arrays, server side flash, and memory. The challenge is understanding which type of flash should be used…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Mobility, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Migration, Primary Data
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Posted in Video
Flash Memory Summit Video – Not All Flash Has To Be A Drive
When IT professionals think of flash storage they often think of something that looks like a hard drive but inside has flash modules instead of platters. The reality is flash can come in a variety of form factors and is…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Using Software To Achieve Full Flash Potential
It is no longer “good enough” to have flash in the server. Where it is in the server is also of vital importance. Moving flash from the SAS interface to the PCI interface to the memory bus has significantly lowered…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Flash and the Cloud
Most major cloud providers now offer a flash storage option as part of their compute service. A high performance option enables in-cloud databases and applications the same benefits as if they were running flash in an on-premises data center. The…
Flash Memory Summit Video – How Can Flash and DRAM Work Together?
Flash storage is of course a major theme at the Flash Memory Summit, but also is server memory. The need to increase the amount of memory per server is critical to making applications like MySQL, Splunk, Cassandra and Couchbase live…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DRAM, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Memory, MySQL, Splunk
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Posted in Video
Flash Memory Summit Video – Software Defined Storage and Flash
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is nothing new, vendors have been presenting it under different names for years. But SDS really had not taken off, it was hindered by a lack of CPU power and highly latent hard disk performance. The…
What is Data Monetization?
Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh…
Tagged with: Big data, Caringo, Data Monetization, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Posted in Blog
Hardware Matters More Than Ever
Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, Memory, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined, Violin Memory
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