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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

I use these examples to illustrate the huge difference between a simple active-passive database running on two servers and a scalable cloud-native database that gets lost when you describe a system merely as “shared-nothing.” Almost as impressive, when it launched in 2017, the first FlashBlade system supported a maximum of 120TB of flash.

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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

Pure Storage

We also created our own DirectFlash® Modules in 2017 , allowing us to implement 100% of our storage functionality in software. Resource Balancer only uses capacity-free space to determine where to place the new volume.¹³ Item #3: “ Active/Active Controller Architecture”¹⁴ Is a Good Thing We see this B.S. PowerStore B.S.

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How Does the Embodied Carbon Dioxide Equivalent of Flash Compare to HDDs?

Pure Storage

Getting to an Updated Embodied Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Baseline One University of Wisconsin study compared COTS HDDs and SSDs manufactured in 2017, comparing the embodied carbon dioxide per terabyte (CO2 e /TB) during manufacturing of a 1TB consumer-grade HDD and a 1TB consumer-grade SSD. that of the comparable HDD.

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People of Pure: Justin Emerson

Pure Storage

It’s a very interesting title because it doesn’t really describe necessarily what the activities are, but very much describes what the objective is,” Justin says. The idea of direct to flash management—writing to flash directly—was born with Iridium and then adopted by FlashArray ™ with the introduction of DirectFlash ® Modules in 2017.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

In 2017, during Hurricane Harvey, which caused catastrophic flooding in Houston and surrounding areas, again, multiple cyberattacks emerged , including phishing campaigns, fraudulent donation websites, and fake charities. Businesses must ensure that they have the infrastructure, plans, and operational capacity to manage polycrisis events.

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Securing Mass Gathering Events: A Simple Design Framework That Considers the Air Domain

Security Industry Association

Take, for example, the 2017 shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada , where the use of a tall building provided a clear line of sight to concertgoers. Duties, responsibilities, capability, and capacity. It’s a “left of bang” mentality and the gold standard for those actively planning, coordinating and executing events that host the public.

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Five Years of Social Impact: A Look Back (and Ahead) at Progress Against Our Pledge 1% Commitments by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

In 2017, we committed to Pledge 1% , a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the larger community a key stakeholder in every business. PagerDuty’s holistic support makes it totally possible for us to work at full capacity without having to make any trade-offs or compromise any of our services.”