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1200 Virtual Desktops in 3-node All-Flash Virtual SAN (VSAN)

1200 Virtual Desktops in 3-node All-Flash Virtual SAN (VSAN)

As 2015 approaches, I wanted to conclude my last blog of this year by discussing our latest all-flash Virtual SAN (VSAN) testing. and to share some of our plans for next year for VSAN and other areas of virtualization. Before getting into the results of our latest testing, I want to point to several of […]

December 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data

Flash-Accelerated Apache HBase

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

Faster Hadoop Reads and Writes with SanDisk® SSDs

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

Does Storage break Moore’s Law?

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