Insights, Best Practices and Forward Thinking from the Customer Facing Team, Solution Architects and Leaders on Extreme Performance Applications, Infrastructure, Storage and the Real-World Impact Possible
Insights, Best Practices and Forward Thinking from the Customer Facing Team, Solution Architects and Leaders on Extreme Performance Applications, Infrastructure, Storage and the Real-World Impact Possible
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on August 5, 2016
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on April 8, 2015
Like all storage, Flash must be formatted before it’s usable. The format of flash is built around maintaining consistent performance and resiliency. When an all-flash array fills up, it will reuse space to write new data. Erase operations happen in....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on April 2, 2015
As an Oracle database guy working at Violin Systems in Europe, I get exposed to some truly big, scary database platforms. Sometimes they are important (like the global PeopleSoft database for a well-known world-wide intergovernmental organization),....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on March 31, 2015
The business value of replication is time. What is a minute of online orders worth to your company? How about an hour? How about 2 days? Longer outages can be fatal to your company if data is not available. Your customers start looking elsewhere,....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on March 5, 2015
Batteries in the data center are problematic. Traditional lead-acid batteries outgas hydrogen (an explosive gas), they can leak acid which can make a real mess of cables and equipment, and they take a lot of space in addition to being pretty heavy.....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on February 13, 2015
The Register asks: why would you put traditional enterprise workloads on All Flash Arrays (AFA)?
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Tim Stoakes on February 4, 2015
In this episode of the Architecture Matters Blog Series, I’ll be covering the rising importance of data management features for all-flash arrays.
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Tim Stoakes on January 27, 2015
In this episode of the Architecture Matters blog series, let's look at the economics of all-flash arrays and Violin’s strategy to make all-flash arrays as affordable as enterprise disk solutions.
