Come to experience new flash storage systems for data centers

Hello!
Feel and potest iron worth a million dollars can not every day . So, we have a new Violin Memory system, and I invite you for a test drive. Yes, by the way, it was we who, at one of such test drives for a dispute, disconnected a switch from the working rack in the data center. But this time we will not do that.

What kind of iron is this?

This is a storage system that keeps the response time for reading and writing for about 1 ms under high load and at the same time gives the smallest price for an I / O operation in a known galaxy. The main vocation of life is to clean bottlenecks in a bunch of cases.

Who do I call:

• Those who handle small amounts of data (up to 50 TB), where the response time and the number of I / O operations per second are extremely critical.
• Those who have Oracle, 1C, SAP or similar large-scale systems, or complex analytical queries (on conventional storage systems are “chewed” on 10-15 hours each).
• Those to whom the decision in cost from $ 300 kilobaksov to about one million approaches. That is clearly not a small business.
• Heads of divisions at whom system administrators complain of work of SHD.
• Heads of data centers and similar sites to assess how you can save.

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Examples from practice:

• Suppose a request is made to perform an analytical operation, which consists of 10,000 transactions to different databases. If you place all the bases on Violin, the speed will increase 10-11 times. Because with a conventional system, each transaction takes 2-3-4 milliseconds, and here - one. One foreign bank made such requests on a conventional storage system for 300 minutes, after the introduction of Violin - for 11.
• With massive virtualization on thousands of machines. For example, at the beginning of the working day, when all employees of the call-center come through thin clients, the load on the storage system is very large (the so-called boot-storm occurs), and Violin with a full flash architecture copes with it.

About prices

• Yes, it is expensive when you do not have high-performance tasks.
• This is beneficial when you need great speed.
• With the right tasks, this is more profitable than buying storage systems with 10-15 flash drives.
• Saves space: the Violin system - 3 units, similar to the storage system - up to 2-3 cabinets. That is, ultimately, saving money again.
• Saves on complex software licenses: usually minus 70% of the cost.
• It is beneficial when the speed of customer service rests on the speed of the application.

What exactly will be on the test drive?

The presentation about "what it is and when it is useful," plus you can touch the living system. It will lie directly on the table, and it will be open, there will be a light bulb, and you can poke your finger in any part of the system and ask what it is. And plus real load testing.

Practice shows that several IT specialists or heads of departments from large companies are going to take such test drives, so if you plan to talk for life and exchange experience (and this happens very often), then add another half an hour to the time to the plan. I will simply show how it all works and talk about my implementation experience.

Time and date

The first will be held on March 19, 2013 from 10:30 to 12:30, the second on March 26 from 15:00 to 17:00.
Location - CROC office at Volochaevskaya, 5, bld. 1 (this is Moscow).

Registration is required for participation. Places are still there now.