1. Understanding SSD Performance

   25 January 2012

2. SNIA Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification

   4 April 2011

   This session will appeal to End Users, OEMs, Drive Manufacturers, System Integrators, as well as those that are seeking a fundamental understanding of the SNIA's Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification.

3. Are SSDs Ready for Enterprise Storage Systems

   4 April 2011

   The presentation provides an overview of SSD technology, storage characteristics and applications that benefit the most from its usage. It also provides techniques for workloads optimization using automated smart-tiering and system implementation in enterprise storage systems together with economics of SSDs usage in real life.

4. Leveraging Flash Memory in Enterprise Storage

   4 April 2011

   This session is for Storage Administrators and Application Architects seeking to understand how to best take advantage of flash memory in enterprise storage environments. The relative advantages of flash tiering, caching and all-flash approaches will be considered, across the dimensions of performance, cost, reliability and predictability.

5. Introducing and Validating SNIA SSS Performance Test Suite

   4 April 2011

   Learning Objectives
   - Get a good understanding of the various parameters that influence the performance characteristics of SSDs
   - Get a full understanding of the proposed SNIA Performance Measurement Specification
   Provide step-by-step guidance on how to set up a test benchmark that enables comparison among the various SSS devices

6. Accerlerating Applications and File Systems with Solid State Storage

   11 October 2010

   The data storage industry is experiencing a mini renaissance as a flurry of new solid state storage devices come to market. SSDs are now available in a broad spectrum of price, form factor, and performance. It is hard enough for a storage architect to sort out the myriad of choices, but that is nothing compared to the challenge of figuring out how to deploy SSD technology in an affordable and effective way

7. Latency: The Heartbeat of a Solid State Disk

   11 October 2010

   In this session we will discuss the merits of low latency solutions and what they mean when coupled with a high IOPS and a large bandwidth design. From a business perspective, low latency will be discussed in terms of how it saves money, makes money or ideally does both for an enterprise organization.

8. Using SSD MLC NAND in Datacenter Applications

   11 October 2010

   SSD vendors have typically focus on SLC as the datacenter NAND SSD technology. Primarily because of the endurance and write performance of SLC NAND. For many usages, MLC NAND is more cost effective and can support the endurance and write performance required by the end user. This course outline how MLC is a cost effective solution for datacenter applications.

9. Apples to Apples, Pears to Pears in SSS Performance Benchmarking

   12 April 2010

   It is becoming increasingly important to understand the full performance characteristics of a solid state drive. Unfortunately, reviewing the product specifications or running some standard benchmark test suites do not always paint a clear picture of what an SSD is capable of. A variety of parameters can influence the performance behavior of a solid state drive: current and previous workloads, fragmentation, block size, read/write mix, and queue depth to name a few

10. Executive Overview and Current Topics on Solid State Storage

    12 April 2010

    This tutorial provides introductory material and discussion of solid state storage. A comprehensive overview of the technology, from components to devices to systems, is provided along with an overview of several current topics surrounding the integration, deployment, use and application of solid state storage.

11. Solid State Storage Architectures

    12 April 2010

    The field of SSS has expanded into multiple classes of offerings (RAM, Enterprise Flash, and Consumer Flash) and ways to deploy the technology (form factor SSDs, PCIe, and rack mount). This presentation will quickly cover the features, relative costs, and performance of the different architectures as well as examples of the best fit applications.

12. The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems: Today and Tomorrow

    12 April 2010

    Targeted primarily at an IT audience, this tutorial presents a brief overview of the solid state technologies which are being integrated into Enterprise Storage Systems today, including technologies, form factors, and price/performance roadmaps. It then goes on to describe where they fit into typical Enterprise Storage architectures today, with descriptions of specific use cases and benefits.

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