By Brian Cox and Rob Callaghan It is well understood amongst most data center managers and sys admins that flash storage is very fast. Being able to travel at electron speed, the data read or written randomly to flash storage is many thousands times faster than the same access on a mechanical, rotating hard disk […]
June 30, 2015 • 7 min read Data
Bigger is not better, in other words: only better is better.
June 30, 2015 • 5 min read Data
Christopher Bergey, VP and GM of Mobile, Tablet and Wearable Solutions at SanDisk, spoke at Compuforum 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan about enabling OEMs to monetize on higher capacities and upselling storage as a strategy to improve bottom lines. He discussed the current mobile innovation race, spurred on by four key emerging segments: Connected Home Internet of Things […]
June 26, 2015 • 2 min read Data
There are so many choices available today as to how to adopt all-flash Virtual SAN. And that means customers can deploy the most efficient infrastructure for their workload needs.
June 25, 2015 • 3 min read Data
You think with the number of superhero movies, or even the number of regular films and/or documentaries that rely on visual effects or post-production digital enhancing these would be the boom times for special effects studios. Heck, both Birdman and Mamma Mia required computer-generated imagery (CGI). The High Cost of Production In reality, many are […]
June 19, 2015 • 3 min read Data
There are three distinct ways VDI is deployed: VDI–in-a-box, VDI in network storage and VDI in software-defined storage. Flash plays a key role in each deployment architecture, improving user experience, accelerating performance and reducing costs. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares how.
June 16, 2015 • 5 min read Data
SanDisk® will be in Nice, France this week at the SAPinsider HANA 2015 event as a Silver sponsor. We’re excited to showcase our industry leading Flash-Optimized solutions for SAP HANA®, Sybase, ERP and other applications. Join SanDisk in Booth #140 Be sure to visit our booth which is located just to the left of the main entrance […]
June 15, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Cisco Live 2015 is taking place next week in San Diego and we’re excited to share a new solution and present in the educational training zone! Cisco and SanDisk® have been working on a high performance Oracle Database 12c solution, powered by the latest UCS B420 M4 blade server and Fusion ioMemory PX600 flash application […]
June 6, 2015 • 4 min read Data
The “Rebooting Computing” initiative spearheaded by the IEEE is one of the more interesting efforts designed to tackle the looming technological hurdles facing the IT industry. The effort seeks to encourage researchers and companies to build systems that can provide far greater performance but at the same time consume far less energy. Security will also […]
June 4, 2015 • 3 min read Data
On the heels of the SIOS MVP Summit I spoke at SQL Saturday Silicon Valley aka #SQLSat375 aka #SQLSatSV. Although it’s a few weeks out already, this is one of the best events of the year! So I thought it deserved a blog to share some of our activities there. SQL Saturday is one of […]
June 3, 2015 • 6 min read Data
