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Don’t put a Go Kart engine in your race car! Part II of this blog series looks at initial testing...

From design considerations to performance best practices, the vSAN Performance Testbed from Western Digital’s Data Propulsion Labs pushes vSAN over 600k IOPs and brings definitive data to vSAN administrators and ReadyNode design teams.

SQL Server® 2016 Meets Fastest Flash: Companies such as Lenovo, Cisco and HPE rely on the performance and stability that Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards from SanDisk provide. They also have come to rely on SanDisk’s Data Propulsion Lab to make it work better and faster!

Organizations trying to embark on the Big Data journey are often confronted with infrastructure challenges. Prasad Venkatachar shares testing results of a new Hadoop solution leveraging Cisco UCS servers and Fusion ioMemory™ from SanDisk.

Unprecedented scaling at lower costs. Chris Howard shares performance metrics from InfiniFlash and IBM GPFS (now known as Spectrum Scale) showing how organization can extract more insight from collected data and devices.

NoSQL database systems need to be cost effective so they can scale appropriately and deliver a good return on investment. Prasad Venkatachar compares the performance acceleration and consolidation cost benefits of Fusion ioMemory vs. hard disk drives.

In my last blog post I talked about our VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) solution with our partner Lenovo, and new OLTP...

Within four weeks we’ve set two TPC-H world records by teaming with Lenovo and Microsoft, beating the previous 3TB and...

With the sun setting on Oracle Database 11g premier support, customers will soon begin seeing additional support costs through the...

SDS is great approach to address performance, availability and data services needs. But without flash, SDS cannot reap the architecture’s performance benefits. Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares the first Storage Spaces testing results

Unveiled at VMware Partner Exchange, Biswapati Bhattacharjee shares the first testing results of SanDisk’s new all-flash VSAN configuration, benchmarking business and ecommerce  workloads.

As 2015 approaches, I wanted to conclude my last blog of this year by discussing our latest all-flash Virtual SAN...

In today’s hyper-connected world, there is a significant amount of data being collected, and later analyzed to make business decisions....

Prasad Venkatachar looks at the role of flash in non-relational databases, and how to SanDisk SATA SSDs help optimize Oracle NoSQL workloads.

Heading to Oracle OpenWorld Oracle OpenWorld is a flagship event for IT professionals – it showcases new product launches, cutting...

In my first blog post on the SanDisk® ITBlog, I talked about testing the Terasort benchmark using SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs...

Apache Hadoop is gaining popularity and traction in a variety of industries, due to its ability to manage and process...

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.

Configuring VMware vSphere’s “Swap to Host Cache” with SanDisk SSDs can control application performance degradation, caused by swapping, to a great extent. This helps increase VM density, maintain performance at a given SLA, and reduce cost per VM.

Last December, SanDisk® announced our partnership with VMware and Dell for Virtual SAN™ (VSAN). In fact, SanDisk SAS enterprise solid...