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Flash in the Enterprise: Cache or Persistent Storage?

Flash has finally arrived in the enterprise. Discussion's rage around the best way to use flash in todays application infrastructure. This talk will break down some myths, discuss flash implementation and then examine how flash has been leveraged in the enterprise as a cache and as persistent storage.

Flash has quickly taken over the consumer space as a fast reliable storage medium for mobile phones, media players, tablets and portable computers. In the enterprise, adoption of flash was initially limited to applications with only the most demanding performance requirements and the budgets to match. With many petabytes shipped, flash is being used across many different applications and companies in a number of different ways. ‘Flash’ is a term that covers several different media types as well as a number of different hardware implementations, this talk will look into some of the persistent myths and questions in the marketplace today such as SLC vs MLC, Wear, Performance and Resilience and explain the truths and misconceptions behind them. Having laid the ground work, the discussion will then move to discuss the different implementations of flash, such as SSD, PCIe, Flash Arrays and their merits and disadvantages of each. Finally and mostly importantly the presentation will examine how enterprise companies have deployed flash to break through application performance bottlenecks and increase server efficiency whilst maintaining a keen cost model.

 

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