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Flash Memory Summit 2019 - Day 3 Wrap Up

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The third and final day of the Flash Memory Summit was as busy as the previous two. Most conferences fizzle out the last day; FMS day 3 was still abuzz with interesting sessions and quality briefings.

Briefing 1 – Fibre Channel Industry Association

The Fibre Channel (FC) protocol, probably more so than any other, can thank flash memory for its resurgence. All-Flash arrays can take full advantage…

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SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?

Latest SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?

Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and sometimes and external network so the computing tier can process it. Computational Storage offers an alternative by performing at least some of the…

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How to Get Your Application Ready for Computational Storage Architecture

Latest @geogeacrump Blog: How to Get Your Application Ready for Computational Storage Architecture

At its most basic, computational storage involves putting processing power where the data resides. In the case of flash storage, a computational storage vendor installs processing power on the flash drive. Imagine an array full of 100 flash drives; now imagine that array full of 100 flash drives each with an individual processor. When an application requests data from the array with standard…

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Live Panel Discussion: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?

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Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and sometimes and external network so the computing tier can process it. Computational Storage offers an alternative by performing at least some of the…

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Is Your Application Performance Too Slow? Consider Computational Storage

Latest @klmacomber Blog Is Your Application Performance Too Slow? Consider Computational Storage

The modern workload set has fundamentally changed the nature of and also how we handle data sets. Previously, critical business applications were typically driven by the processing of large, monolithic databases that were comprised of large files. Today, more and more, businesses are being driven by the ingest and processing of many small files. Large data sets are frequently broken up into…

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New eBook: Taking The Load off Networks with Computational Storage

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The data center is a series of networks. There are networks that connect servers to users and networks that connect storage to servers. Even within servers and storage there are networks to connect CPU to IO devices like flash drives or hard disk drives. The more often these networks need to be traversed the more latency is introduced into the environment. Modern applications excel in low latency…

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Solving the New Storage Performance Problem

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NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) flash drives thrust storage media from the position of the worst performing component of the data center to the best. The technology’s low latency however, exposes other bottlenecks that went previously undetected. The new storage performance problem is not getting sufficient Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) out of storage media; rather it is making…

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Use Cases for Computational Storage

Latest @klmacomber Blog: Use Cases for Computational Storage

Previously, Storage Switzerland has discussed the value of computational storage, or adding compute power directly to storage media to enable data to be processed in place, in serving modern workloads – as well as its impact on future forward data center design. In this blog we will dive more deeply into key use cases for computational storage.

Hyperscale Data Centers with Parallel Workloads

Hype…

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