How to Accelerate Your SQL Server Data Warehouse Workloads
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Speaker: Erik de la Iglesia, Chief Architect of GridIron Systems Inc.
Data warehouse analysis drives business intelligence which allows organizations to run more efficiently and productively. The ability to store and analyze large volumes of http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/b/8/2/event_62568002.jpeginformation is a competitive advantage in today’s business environment.
Flash storage capacity is not as important as the cost effective use of flash. Storage budgets don't allow for universal adoption of flash as a storage medium. Therefore the goal is to create the highest performance benefit using the smallest amount of flash with the least disruption to existing infrastructure and processes.
You’ll Learn:
• How to boost the performance and scalability of databases without any changes to your database, servers, or storage
• How to accelerate I/O-sensitive database applications and virtualized environments without requiring changes to servers, applications, or storage management functions
• How silicon-based analytics monitor and adapt to workloads as they change
• About typical customer problems and solutions
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From Network World 25 Hot Products from IT Companies: Gridiron TurboCharger (http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/102510-25-startup-products-to-watch.html#slide11)
The Gridiron Systems appliance is a SAN application accelerator designed for large databases, VMware deployments and file acceleration. Gridiron uses MLC (multi-level cell) flash chips to provide "the performance and read/write ability of RAM with the capacity of Flash," speeding up access to application data sets.
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Speaker Erik de la Iglesia is the Chief Architect at GridIron Systems (http://www.gridironsystems.com/). He's responsible for machine learning, analytics and flash technology. Previously Erik founded content security pioneer Reconnex (McAfee) and was an architect at WebStacks (Extreme Networks). With 23 patents issued and over 2 dozen in process, his work has spanned full and semicustom logic design, programmable logic systems and software applications. Erik holds a BSEE from the University of Florida and an MSEE from Stanford.
