SSD
What Do People Think About SSDs?
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” In business that means not only understanding competitors and customers, but also being aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your own company and building a global strategy around it. Companies both large and small love to tout themselves as entities […]
January 19, 2016 • 4 min read Data
5 Tips for Building a More Efficient Data Center
Looking to get more out of your data center in 2016? Here are 5 tips to building a better, and more efficient, data center using flash storage technology.
September 30, 2015 • 6 min read Data
Enterprise Storage: 6 Predictions for 2016
It’s tough predicting the future, but somehow people always ask me to do just that. Of course, the shorter the time you’re predicting, the easier it gets. So it’s good I’m being asked what my personal take is on enterprise storage and flash in 2016. Next year? I mean – how hard can that be […]
September 28, 2015 • 6 min read Data
The Big Surprise In Computer Energy Consumption
The typical gaming computer consumes as much power each year as approximately three refrigerators, according to a study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The comparison is one of the many eye-opening statistics in a paper written by Nathaniel and Evan Mills on the impact of high-performance PCs on household energy consumption and the steps that […]
September 16, 2015 • 4 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
Flash at Scale: Ultra-Value SSDs in Hyperscale Environments
Many IT managers evaluating flash for data center workloads are comparing between all-flash, all-hard drive (HDD) or hybrid (flash and HDD) array options. But flash is not a “one size fits all” solution, particularly not in the case of data center workloads where I/O characteristics and endurance requirements differ between various applications. Enterprise-grade flash solutions, […]
August 3, 2015 • 6 min read Data
What’s Driving Your Business? Optimizing Embedded Applications with the new Z400s
Digital signs and point of sale (POS) kiosks serve as a brand’s public-face, critical touchpoints that should never fade, flicker or turn the entire sign into a wall of blue. Outdoor digital signs are constantly “on” in harsh roadside or remote environments, meaning they need to perform at peak levels, even when they’re running hot due […]
May 26, 2015 • 2 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