Keynote at Flash Memory Summit 2018: Optimizing Storage Solutions for Data Center Applications

Our very own Nigel Alvares, vice president of SSD & Data Center Storage Solutions discussed how cloud and enterprise data centers are increasingly highly-virtualized, multi-tenant, scale-out environments that support many workloads with differing storage requirements. To help them run at top speed, they need to be able to give each application exactly the storage it needs with the performance it requires. That is, storage must be disaggregated (separated from compute and networking). The result is high utilization, fast and consistent response times, low latency, and the scalability needed to keep up with the data explosion. Disaggregated storage, connected via the latest NVMe and NVMe-oF industry standards, is essential for the latest applications such as real-time analytics, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, security, video and image processing, and the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Data centers can use it to reduce their total cost of ownership while delivering near-real-time results.