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 March 25, 2016
I will not be selling you anything in this blog. I will be sharing a small part of the thought process Ferrellgas (NYSE: FGP) exercised as they evaluated their flash storage options and why they decided to go with Violin Systems and the 7300 Flash....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on December 6, 2013
This post is part of a series of posts (starting with XtremIO - At the Bit Level) where I will explain not only the significant architectural failings of the XtremIO product, but also the fundamentally and deliberately misleading way they have....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on May 9, 2013
Modern hosting and service providers often face the challenge of managing the cost efficiencies of their platform. A common solution is to deploy a multi-tenant or multi-instance architecture in which many customers share the same hardware. The....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on April 26, 2013
SSD’s are like cordless phones and DVD’s. They made an improvement on an existing technology but didn’t revolutionize its use. In technology there is a difference between the concept of modernizing and revolutionizing. Modernizing is finding a....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on April 26, 2013
Flash is about latency and IOPs so why would it be good for Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence? Excellent question. Yes, the typical marketing and wow-factor stats around flash are based on latencies and IOPs (Input Output Per Second). Data....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on April 26, 2013
Transactional workloads are commonly defined as being small atomic pieces of work. This is in contrast to decision support, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence or otherwise labeled reporting systems that require fewer, larger, more sequential....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on March 15, 2012
Back to school day. Over at Stanford they have a speaker series that has been going on for the last few... decades, called the Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Colloquium, known to many simply as EE380. The....
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VIOLIN SYSTEMS on January 10, 2012
Why did we take disk drives out of servers? Now we rely on traditional disk array storage and surround it with data center compute. The industry doubles processing power every 12 to 18 months and Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband now provide 10 –....
