Dream big! Enter and Compete To Win one of 2 Flash Storage Arrays
Ready for some sweet storage dreams? All you have to do is participate in the Cool Flash Contest—we’re awarding 2 HPE 3PAR StoreServ flash storage with SanDisk flash to two lucky winners.
January 14, 2016 • 3 min read Data
Can Flash Replace DRAM?
Do you really need DRAM? MIT researchers built a system called BlueBDM optimized for Big Data workloads around a core of flash memory and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), reprogrammable processors that can be used to accelerate search and other somewhat repetitive tasks. In the system, the reseachers linked 20 servers to FPGAs, which in […]
August 19, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Why It’s Not All About Capacity
Think of how much time and productivity you gain when your PC boots up nearly as quickly as you can say “Hey Siri”!
May 11, 2016 • 3 min read Data
Ashley Madison Hack: Isn’t It about Time We Stop Saying People are the Biggest Security Risk?
The recent, well-publicized hack of the website Ashleymadison.com (and before that: Twitter, United Airlines, Target, and more) is a harsh reminder to IT teams everywhere that the biggest risk to security is ourselves and our users. It is possible that their hack was due to improperly secured or reviewed administrative access, which is how many […]
August 20, 2015 • 3 min read Data
How to Supercharge your Search Engine with Fusion ioMemory
Search engines are powerful tools. They provide real-time access to a variety of different data types with a relatively small level of effort. But with enterprise data sets growing larger, meeting the performance demands of today’s users can be a challenge. Larger indexes can quickly overwhelm traditional search platforms, forcing users to invest in expensive […]
October 5, 2015 • 2 min read Data
What’s Driving the Future of Transportation in China?
What is it with tech companies pouring cash into transportation companies these days? Apple just invested $1 Billion in Chinese car-hailing service Didi Chuxing in May, which turned around to purchase Uber China in August. Samsung in July also invested $450 Million in BYD Company Ltd, a Chinese firm that makes both automobiles and rechargeable […]
September 6, 2016 • 4 min read Data
Flash Memory is Eating the World
It’s not just the movement of the tectonic plates of world politics, nature’s forces or global economics that make this decade a historic one. Technology has entered an era different than anything we’ve seen before. Devices have become indivisible from our daily experiences while sensors are now embedded to our physical surroundings, and eventually even […]
February 9, 2016 • 2 min read Data
Adding Enterprise-Class Features to Open Source SCST
Open Source is a key part of many of SanDisk® solutions in the data center, mobile, consumer and retail markets. Thus, working closely with the open source community and being an active part of it has been a priority for us. One of the interesting projects that we have been investing in is as project maintainers […]
November 12, 2015 • 2 min read Data
Get Longer Lifetime for your PCs with SSDs
Smartphones and tablets capture a lot of people’s attention, but PCs still play an important role in people’s lives. Meaning SSDs are here to stay!
November 10, 2016 • 3 min read Data
HP and SanDisk® Partner on Storage Class Memory: What It Means For Computing
We are proud to announce our collaboration with Hewlett-Packard on storage class memory (SCM). [Tweet “HP and #SanDisk® Partner on Storage Class Memory: What It Means For Computing”] SCM is a new class of non-volatile memory designed to enable applications like real-time data analytics and high-performance computing. The world economy runs on data and we […]
October 9, 2015 • 2 min read Data