Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing reliability the all-flash data center is becoming a reality. But as IT professionals understand the benefits of moving more and more workloads to flash they are also realizing that different workloads need different types…
E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only…
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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