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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

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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