SanDisk® is Cloudera Certified! Hadoop with Confidence
Within our SanDisk® labs, I conducted a number of experiments with Apache Hadoop and SanDisk flash, mainly our CloudSpeed Ascend SATA Solid State Drives (SSDs). The initial experiments were with standard Hadoop benchmarks, namely the Terasort and the TestDFSIO benchmarks. These benchmarks helped show me how SanDisk SSDs helped boost the performance of the Terasort […]
November 10, 2014 • 3 min read Data
Architecting Storage Solutions
One of the cool things about working at SanDisk is partnering with the world’s top product designers who are building the next generation of smart devices. Whether it’s something you’ll carry, something you’ll wear, something you’ll put in your living room, or car, we are likely involved with designing the storage system. It’s a massive […]
November 6, 2014 • 3 min read Data
Prepare for the Technology Refresh – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 End-of-Life (EOL)
Microsoft’s announcement of an end-of-life (EOL) status for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (WS03) operating system by July, 2015 marks the end of an industry era. It means that WS03 – which was a stepping stone between Windows NT Server 4.0 and more modern versions of Windows for 32-bit and 64-bit servers – will no […]
November 5, 2014 • 6 min read Data
Better Together: Thoughts on Flash, Big Data and the Cloud as Fusion ioMemory Joins the SanDisk® Family
The combined knowledge and solutions of the Fusion-io and SanDisk teams is our greatest strength as we are powering millions of users around the world
November 4, 2014 • 6 min read Data
Flash-Accelerated Apache HBase
In today’s hyper-connected world, there is a significant amount of data being collected, and later analyzed to make business decisions. This explosion of data has led to various technologies that can operate on this “Big-Data”, technologies for Big-Data Analytics. Traditional database systems and data warehouses are being augmented with newer scale-out open-source technologies like Apache […]
November 3, 2014 • 4 min read Data
The Emergence of Software-Defined Memory – Accelerating Applications in the World of Flash, DRAM and Persistent Memory
In the past several years our industry has seen the emergence of the “Software-Defined” concept. Where previously resource management, policy, and data management were embedded within hardware products, both Software-Defined Networking and Software-Defined Storage advocated for policies of management to be separated from the hardware components themselves, enabling software to then coordinate access to a […]
October 1, 2014 • 3 min read Data
Oracle OpenWorld – Past, Present and Future: Your Event Guide From an OOW Veteran
Marcel Proust had his memoir—“Remembrance of Things Past”—to re-live all that had gone before. The entire novel was accompanied by a stream of memories from the still-rather-young author, who has been snacking on madeleine cookies and drinking café au lait. It is a work of seven volumes, with many hundreds of characters appearing throughout—a march […]
September 26, 2014 • 8 min read Data
Faster Hadoop Reads and Writes with SanDisk® SSDs
In my first blog post on the SanDisk® ITBlog, I talked about testing the Terasort benchmark using SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs within an Apache Hadoop data-analytics environment. The blog and the more detailed technical paper that followed talked about the significant performance and TCO benefits that can be achieved by strategically using SSDs within a Big-Data […]
September 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data
Forget TCO. It’s all about TCA.
I’ve been in the IT industry for multiple decades now, and the mantra I have heard along my path from my MBA professors, from my colleagues, from competitors and industry consultants is that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the most important aspect of evaluating a purchase. TCO goes beyond the outlay and really embraces […]
September 4, 2014 • 4 min read Data
Flash Transforming Healthcare IT
When we imagine what our healthcare services will look like in the future, we foresee a data-driven, mobile revolution, where we, and our medical caretakers, can receive instantaneous examination results, where complex scans deliver images on the spot, and analytics take our medical history and deliver insights to patterns or possible risks. But as the […]
August 21, 2014 • 5 min read Data