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SUMMARY:FlashBlade: Hardware and Software Co-design - Alex Ho (Pure Storag
 e)
DTSTART:20160811T140000Z
DTEND:20160811T150000Z
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CONTACT:Liang Wang
DESCRIPTION:The past decade saw the rise of “big data” – and storage
  solutions designed to allow Petabytes of data to be centralized and serve
 d for everything from data analytics to scientific discovery to movie rend
 ering. These storage solutions were big\, but often slow\, as they took ad
 vantage of bigger and bigger hard disk drives\, the last mechanical relics
  in today's otherwise all-silicon data center. But with the rise of cloud-
 native applications\, needs and expectations are changing. Big but slow is
 n't good enough anymore\, and the dramatic inefficiency of rows and rows o
 f spinning disk in the data center just can't keep up with the efficiency 
 demands of today.\n\nThis industry experiences talk will discuss the desig
 n and implementation of FlashBlade\, a new flash-based data platform.  Fla
 shBlade is an elastic scale-out system that delivers all-flash performance
  to multi-petabyte-scale data sets. It is a co-designed hardware/software 
 system that scales to 1.6PB usable in only 4 rack units.\n\nBio: Alex Ho h
 as been working on FlashBlade at Pure Storage since the project's inceptio
 n three years ago.  Prior to that he was Director of Platform Engineering 
 at Arista Networks for seven years.  He also spent more than 10 years at O
 racle\, mostly in the RDBMS R&D group.  Alex has degrees in computer scien
 ce from Berkeley\, Stanford\, and Cambridge.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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