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How the Next Generation of Flash Storage is Changing the Economics Of SaaS...
This week I had the opportunity to record a webinar on a subject very close to my heart, the Software-as-a-Service industry. From 2003 to 2007 I managed the production infrastructure for a global SaaS...
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Understanding Flash: The Fall and Rise of Flash Memory
This month sees the four year anniversary of some interesting events. Commonwealth countries around the world celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Whitney Houston was tragically found...
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Understanding Flash: What is 3D NAND?
About 18 months ago I wrote a post describing the different types of NAND flash known as SLC, MLC and TLC. However, 18 months is a lifetime in the world of technology so now I need to clarify it based...
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All Flash Arrays: Hybrid Means Compromise
Sometimes the transition between two technologies is long and complicated. It may be that the original technology is so well established that it’s entrenched in people’s minds as simply “the way...
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Postcards from Storageland: Pure Storage Cancels Christmas
Ho ho ho folks. It’s nearly Christmas Day, 2016 and it most definitely is the season to be jolly. It’s also an exciting time in the All Flash Array industry with NetApp announcing its intended...
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Why Kaminario?
This summer I made the decision to leave my previous employer and join another vendor in the All Flash Array space – a company called Kaminario. A lot of people have been in touch to ask me about...
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All Flash Arrays: SSD-based versus Ground-Up Design
In recent articles in this series I’ve been looking at the architectural choices for building All Flash Arrays (AFAs). I surmised that there are three main approaches: Hybrid Flash Arrays SSD-based...
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All Flash Arrays: Where’s My Capacity? Effective, Usable and Raw Explained
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Goodbye Violin… Available For Hire!
There’s a joke among some of the longer-serving employees of Violin Memory that “Violin years” are like dog years: every normal year feels like a decade. It’s not meant in a negative way, it’s just...
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All Flash Arrays: Can’t I Just Stick Some SSDs In My Disk Array?
In the previous post of this series I outlined three basic categories of All Flash Array (AFA): the hybrid AFA, the SSD-based AFA and the ground-up AFA. This post addresses the first one and is...
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All Flash Arrays: What Is An AFA?
For the last couple of years I’ve been writing a series of blog posts introducing the concepts of flash-memory and solid state storage to those who aren’t part of the storage industry. I’ve covered...
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Was I Mentioned During Oracle’s Q4 2015 Results Call?
In a proud moment for me, it appears that Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, has mentioned my flashdba blog during the Oracle Q4 2015 results call. At least, that’s what I’m reading into this section from the...
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Understanding Flash: Summary – NAND Flash Is A Royal Pain In The …
So this is it – the last article in my mini-series on understanding flash. This is the bit where I draw it all together in a neat conclusion that makes you think, “Yes! That was worth reading”. No...
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The Great Hypervisor Bake-off: VMware ESX vs Oracle VM
This is a very simple post to show the results of some recent testing that Tom and I ran using Oracle SLOB on Violin to determine the impact of using virtualization. But before we get to that, I am...
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ASM Rebalance Too Slow? 3 Tips To Improve Rebalance Times
I’ve run into a few customers recently who have had problems with their ASM rebalance operations running too slowly. Surprisingly, there were some simple concepts being overlooked – and once these...
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Implementing Linux native multipathing or DM-MPIO together with EMC PowerPath
Guest Post I’m delighted to say that this is another guest post from my good friend Nate Fuzi, who performs the same role as me for Violin but is based in the US instead of EMEA. Because he is...
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Paris Oracle Meetup (Jeudi 26 Mars 2015 @ 7pm)
A quick post to say that this week, on Thursday 26th, I will be giving a talk (in English!) on the subject of Flash for DBAs (and architects, designers, developers, managers etc) at the Paris Oracle...
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Postcards from Storageland: Three Years At Violin
A few weeks ago, in what seems to be a truly modern phenomenon, I became aware that it was my third anniversary of joining Violin after I noticed a number of people congratulating me on LinkedIn. In...
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Understanding Flash: Fabrication, Shrinkage and the Next Big Thing
Semiconductor Fabrication Plant (picture courtesy of SemiWiki.com) Before I draw this series on Understanding Flash to a close, I wanted to briefly touch on the subject of manufacturing. Don’t worry,...
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Oracle Exadata X5: The Road To Ten Billion Dollars
Now that the dust has settled on the announcement of Oracle’s new Exadata X5 Database Machine, I’ve been doing some research in order to update my History of Exadata post (it’ll be ready soon). While...
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