April 8, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Burgener from IDC talked about the directions and changes in the flash markets, with emphasis on flash-based arrays. The constant drivers are for bigger, faster, and cheaper for all devices. The all flash market is becoming the third compute platform. Many systems are changing into…
August 14, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Swapna Yasarapu from STEC moderated a panel on SSD use cases and implementation. Panel members were George Crump from Storage Switzerland, Bruce Moxon from STEC, and Sean Stead from STEC. Stead provided an overview of flash in storage, including platforms and form factors, as well as the…
August 21,20-12, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Scaramuzzo from Smart Storage Systems talked about the internal and external drivers for the storage industry. His talk was framed around the question, “if time is money, what is endurance related to?” As a background, the exponentially growing volume of data is increasing the complexity of the…