In April, CHI Corporation had the opportunity to host a webinar on eliminating database issues with our partners Kaminario, the leader in all-flash storage, and Soaring Eagle Database Consulting. The webinar features input and commentary from Jeff Garbus, CEO/Founder of Soaring Eagle; Randy Cook, Senior Engineer/Professional Services at Kaminario, Josh Epstein, Vice President of Marketing at Kaminario, and John Thome, President of CHI Corporation.
If you weren’t able to tune in then, you can watch the full webinar online. We’ve also recapped some of the main takeaways from the presentation here.
What is the driver for organizations moving to all-flash storage?
Many organizations are asking themselves the question: Why are my databases running slowly? The answer usually lies in the last remaining bottleneck: Storage. For these organizations, an all-flash solution is most immediately the answer to resolving performance issues and getting data off the disk. After that immediate need to improve performance, the second reason for moving to an all-flash solution is the pricing. Companies are realizing that they can save more by reducing physical storage than it will cost for flash storage over time.
What drives performance for enterprise applications?
The biggest database challenge is performance degradation, which occurs when there is an increase in transactional workloads. If your systems are growing—which they should be—you will feel the need for more data and faster data; you will want to get past that storage bottleneck. As Jeff Garbus of Soaring Eagle Database Consulting said, “Nobody ever has reduced storage needs as a problem.” As indexing needs and data challenge needs increase, the needs for faster storage just snowball.
What is mixed workload processing—and why does it matter?
From a real life perspective, almost all transactional environments are mixed workloads. They are doing everything from transactions and reporting to data loads and interactions. Put simply, the storage you have needs to be able to adapt to the activities you are going to perform. “If you have one storage platform behind everything and it serves the same performance characteristics no matter what you’re asking of it, that’s just where we have to live these days.”
How are flash storage platforms like Kaminario tied to business value?
All-flash storage platforms like Kaminario offer more database storage capacity in less physical space—offering you greater agility, scalability, and efficiency to meet the needs of your business.
If you are seeking a solution that will eliminate data performance issues for your company, contact CHI Corporation to speak to a Kaminario product expert. We look forward to introducing you to an all-flash storage solution that will improve your operations significantly and add value and cost savings in the long term.
