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A Simple Explanation Of Why Flash Matters.
Let’s start by saying that the title is a little deceptive. I think that traditional hard disk is over. You can start by seeing it in PC and Apple computer sales. Look at the Apple’s laptops which...
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Reference Architecture : All-Silicon Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse
If you are working with the Microsoft enterprise offerings – this may be of interest. The Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse guide are reference architectures which are a combination of Microsoft SQL...
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Recommended Reading : OLTP Performance of Exadata versus SSDs versus Violin...
Often, the question comes up how solutions built around SSDs or Violin Memory arrays compare with Exadata. A short time ago there was a nice benchmark that provided that some answers. Ashminder Ubhi...
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Technical Paper : Best Practices for Oracle RAC and Linux on Violin Memory...
The alternative to buying an expensive Exadata solution is to use Violin Memory Arrays to quite simply provide a high performing Oracle database software/server/storage combination. Which is after-all...
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Recommended Reading : Fast NoSQL Databases on Flash
The arrival of Big Data frameworks has brought with it NoSQL databases. With those databases are questions about scalability and performance. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that both can be...
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Modernizing versus Revolutionizing the Storage in the Datacenter
Matt Henderson, a database and systems architect at Violin Memory, has published a great article on the difference in modernizing versus revolutionizing storage in your data center. In the article he...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance on Flash
There is an excellent description of running Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on top of an all-flash 6232, an MLC Violin Memory array. The performance comparison between HDDs and flash is pretty dramatic.
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Recommended Reading : Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing SQL Server...
Microsoft has released a new whitepaper that should be of interest to those that virtualize SQL Server using Microsoft’s virtualization technologies. This guide provides high level best practices and...
View Article2012 Marketshare for Flash/SSD Released By Gartner
It is worth noting that Gartner has posted a report detailing who the flash/SSD vendors are and what marketshare they own. It is defintely worth reading Gigom’s article and The Register’s article on...
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