Author Archives: Yaron Klein

Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012 with its columnar capabilities along with already existing column oriented databases brings new opportunities to flash base storage in the data center. Along with the growing demand for big data in the cloud and massive … Continue reading →

Flash based storage is becoming very popular lately. Data centers are more and more populated with storage devices that have some format of flash based storage. From SSD disks that replace some of the HDD disks in storage arrays or … Continue reading →

Lately we are witnessing hype around flash based storage. SSD design companies raise money (Anobit) or acquired (Pilant), flash appliance companies execute huge IPO (Fusion-IO) and SSD based appliance start-ups are hot merchandise (Violin, XtremIO). Is this a real revolution … Continue reading →