The Future of Performance-Oriented Storage:  Silicon versus Magnetic Media

David Flynn, Chief Technology Officer, Fusion-io

Companies have recently begun to take advantage of silicon-based storage for storing large amounts of data. These next-generation storage technologies are infinitely faster than the spinning magnetic disk, but are limited if integrated into existing storage architectures designed to augment the magnetic disk's poor performance. However, by diverting architectures designed around disks entirely, engineers have been able to increase I/O by more than 1000x, resulting in exponentially increased performance. As these innovations migrate to SANs, the potential of bringing silicon-based technology to industries that rely heavily on performance-intensive storage is difficult to overestimate.

David Flynn will discuss this approach to optimizing active data performance and the potential silicon storage technology brings to industries now reliant on magnetic media.  As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:

•   Assess the next-generation advantages of silicon-based storage products over traditional magnetic media when implemented at the enterprise level
  
• Appreciate the disadvantages of hiding next-generation silicon-based storage technologies behind traditional storage architectures -- the system of buses, controllers, and others designed to augment magnetic media's poor performance
  
• Discover the exponentially-increased performance, manageability, new feature sets and other advantages that will result as game-changing silicon-based technologies migrate to the storage area network.
  

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