storagesummit

use a "flash-first" architecture and balance out the storage infrastructure

Jeff Frick Is "Flash First" for new apps, new infrastructure only, or is anyone rolling flash back into older apps/infrastructure? Assume better ROI in former case.

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Oracle Hardware amongst these "flash-first" hybrids #Oracle #ZS3 "stands out" http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/nas/dcig-oraclezs3-h2h-2131837.pdf

brian bulkowski The number of flash storage offerings will EXPLODE in the next 6 months. At @aerospikedb , I have very interesting beta gear from multiple startups. All blow away @oraclehardware in terms of price - density - iops.

here's the difference in efficiency b/tween a traditional cached array and a flash-first architecture in an oracle DB environment http://wikibon.org/w/images/4/44/ZFSFigure3a.jpg

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one key to storage performance has always been the rate at which a cache can de-stage to the spinning disk backend. With a flash-first architecture the persistent flash medium handles this problem much better than an async trickle to b/end disk

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Kerstin Woods

One item is storage visibility - DBAs can use tools like #Oracle #ZFS DTrace to see the DB and VM impact to the storage.

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cmosoares

One easy one is data compression. Customer experience with Oracle Database Hybrid Columnar Compression shows resulting improvement in query speeds of 3x-8x.

John Furrier1

Question: What does storage efficiency mean?

Tim Crawford

From a technical perspective or from a data management perspective. The answers are vastly different.

John Furrier trying to frame a reference on strategies and tactics so both to be discussed

Dave Vellante great point tim - it also means being able to efficiently manage the storage from a people standpoint

it means being able to get as much 'value' out of the storage you pay for (e.g. the % of raw storage you can actually use) - where value is a balance of capacity & perf. based on your application needs

so from an oracle DB standpoint efficiency is getting consistent, predictable performance & low management costs with less storage - "doing more w/less"

cmosoares

In other words, lowering over TCO.

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John Furrier0

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Dave Vellante0

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