Event: Storage Field Day 9
Appearance: NetApp Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Company: NetApp, SolidFire
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Personnel: Dave Hitz, Dave Wright
Dave Wright, Founder of SolidFire, now part of NetApp, comes clean about the lies that flash storage companies tell. He begins with the challenges of adapting a disk architecture to flash, adding data reduction and complex metadata handling and dealing with wear amplification. He then talks scalable storage, starting with the issues of monolithic controllers and multi-protocol support. He disputes the idea that there is one single flash storage architecture and presents the NetApp portfolio.