VIOLIN Insights

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 way to do the same thing, just a little bit faster or little bit easier.  Revolutionizing is either eliminating or vastly changing how something is done.

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 warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) is normally a throughput game, so what gives?