Posts Tagged ‘flash memory’

Podcast with Chris Evans of The Storage Architect

by Narayan on April 26, 2012

Chris Evans, AKA The Storage Architect, was in town for Tech Field Day and dropped by the Violin office. Naturally we asked him to sit down for a quick chat to get his take on a few storage topics for your enjoyment. Tune in to listen to his comments on: Why he likes storage His [...]


The Violin Memory Four-Level System Architecture

by Jack on April 11, 2012

Much has been discussed about the various approaches to flash storage in the enterprise. Violin has taken an architectural path that started with early innovations in our unique Violin Switched Memory (vXM) architecture and hardware based vRAID to build a tightly integrated system that can’t be achieved with off-the-shelf components or stand-alone devices. This design [...]


Stanford Talk on Flash Memory Design

by JCRB 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 list of past speakers is as they say, long and distinguished, and includes such industry [...]


Part 4: SSD’s in Storage Arrays

by JCRB 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 – 40Gig bandwidth with very low latencies.  So we have lots of compute [...]