August 11, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Moon from Seagate discussed various drive capabilities and configurations, noting that there is no single best choice. Each type has strengths and weaknesses related to parameters of speed, performance, size, cost, capacity, and total operating costs. Consumers want the best of breed for their particular application….
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Scott Stetzer from STEC proposed storage, system, and network designers need to develop new ideas about when, where and how to use SSDs. Fitting SSD technology to the application layer can bring new value and reduce TCO. Data centers are changing and now have to deal with…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John Scaramuzzo from SMART Modular described SSDs in the enterprise as a transformational disruptive force. These drives have changed the nature and costs of infrastructure for many businesses. For comparison, a 15k HDD is about 500 times slower than a SSD in IOPS terms. An SSD uses…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Bill Nesheim from the hardware group at Oracle made comments on the use of flash in enterprise applications. Not everything is faster with flash, and enterprises may have other overriding requirements. In the enterprise, flash can optimize the performance of databases and storage platforms. Last year, companies…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Knut Grimsrud from Intel discussed the next frontier in SSDs. The industry is moving towards new approaches to connectivity and system software to enable order of magnitude improvements in performance. In small data centers, HDDs are being replaced with SSDs resulting in a 20 times reduction in…
August 10, 2011, flash memory summit, Santa Clara, CA—Seaung Suk Lee from Hynix talked about the need for low cost, high reliability NAND to enable solutions in storage. The increase in bit density has impacted flash endurance and data retention, adding to the challenges facing flash development. First, some market statistics. This year, flash is…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Glen Hawk from Micron Technology described NANDs increasing role in information gathering, search, storage, and retrieval. The various uses for NAND have changed the way we look at data. Alchemy has been much maligned over the centuries, because some of its early proponents, rather than just try…
August 9, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—We talked to Dan Jeanette from Toshiba about their newest enterprise-class SSDs. They now have a full family of HDDs and SSDs for data center storage. The enterprise family includes 3.5″ HDDs at 7.5k, 10k, and 15k RPPM. The 2.5″ HDDs run at 10k and 15k. The…
August 9, 2011, flash memory summit, Santa Clara, CA—a small group of experts and pundits looked at the issues, trends, and forecasts for tablets. They also look at the effects that these devices will have on various types of storage. Bob O’Donnell, program vice president for clients and displays at IDC noted the diversity of…
August 9, 2011, Flash Memory Summit Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Yoran Cedar, CTO at SanDisk, look at the future prognosis for the flush industry. New devices, applications, and platforms are driving increases in the overall market. On one end of the spectrum, social networking and cloud services are driving the use of more flash at the…