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New @georgeacrump Blog: Flash Memory Summit Wrap up Day 3

The third and final day of the Flash Memory Summit was as busy as the previous two. Most conferences fizzle out the last day; FMS day 3 was still abuzz with interesting sessions and quality briefings.

Briefing 1 – Fibre Channel Industry Association

The Fibre Channel (FC) protocol, probably more so than any other, can thank flash memory for its resurgence. All-Flash arrays can take full advantage…

New @klmacomber Blog: Rethinking the SAN for the NVMe Era

Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives promise new levels of ultra-low latency and fast performance. The media is beginning to find its way into the enterprise storage environments, on the back of the need to serve the growing number of performance-intensive workloads.

NVMe storage is typically deployed on a direct-attached basis as opposed to through a storage area network (SAN) to…

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Delivering Storage for Web-Scale IT in the Enterprise - Excelero

A web-scale data center needs to scale to support thousands if not millions of users. Web-scale application use cases range from traditional transactional IT to modern data analytics and machine learning workloads. It also includes new advanced video applications and traditional HPC workloads. While the workload type may vary, each of these workloads has universal demands of the storage…

New @georgeacrump Note: Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Hyperscale Data Centers - Excelero

A hyperscale data center may have hundreds of instances of multiple applications. At any point in time one of these instances may peak and demand a much higher than normal amount of CPU and storage IO, starving other instances and applications for resources.

Most hyperscale IT professionals try to deal with these peak demands by either building for the worse case (the peaks) or to “unconverge”…