SanDisk Big Data and Flash: Why Is This the Future? [Video]

Victoria Koepnick introduces Allen Samuels, Engineering Fellow and Chief Software Architect, to discuss SanDisk’s flash positioning in the field of big data. He discusses the issues with using hard disk drives for big data applications and presents an alternative model using an all-solid state device. He presents data tiering, erasure coding, and the data architecture. Recorded at Data Field Day 1 in San Jose, CA on May 14, 2015. For more information, visit TechFieldDay.com orbigdataflash.sandisk.com/infiniflash