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
Does Storage break Moore’s Law?
Over the years an exponential gap has grown between the advancements of CPU and memory, and what storage can handle. Hard drive performance is the laggard by simply being too slow.
July 22, 2014 • 5 min read Data
Speeds, Feeds and Needs: Latency
Our goal for the ‘Speeds, Feeds and Needs’ blog series is to make it a place for anyone interested in enterprise storage. Whether a CIO or a system designer, we want to address topics of interest to you in a fashion that makes it valuable to you. This overarching goal has led us to create […]
July 17, 2014 • 5 min read Data