Presented at LinuxCon 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------- Change is in the air. The data center of today is tackling new workloads like big data, cloud computing, social and mobile. Nithya Ruff, Director of SanDisk's Open Source Strategy Office, explains why the disruptive combination of flash storage and open source will move the needle to a new data center.

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Nithya A. Ruff
The Disruptive Power of Flash in the Data Center
Director, Open Source Strategy Office
August 19, 2015

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The Way It Used to Be

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The New Age of Digital Images

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Flash has changed application media repeatedly
by reaching new levels of cost for utility.
Waves of Disruption
1995 2005 20152000 2008

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Open Source & Flash - Key Data Center Disruptions
Datacenter Architecture
Low Energy Scalable

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Low Energy Extreme
Performance
Scalable Reliable Breakthrough
Economics
Flash Meets Key Data Center Requirements

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Stored Data to On-Demand Data
vs.
Cold and Archived Data On-Demand Data

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Open Source Software Rules the Datacenter
OpenStack, Ceph, Mesos, Swift, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Docker
Datacenter Level
Orchestration API
Object and Key
Value Stores
SW Defined
Datacenter

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Imagine If…

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We Can Make It Happen Together…
How Far Reaching the Ripple Effects Could Be
On Innovation
Big Data & complex tasks more feasible,
enabling new possibilities
On the Data Center Bottom Line
ITC, TCO, delivering on SLAs,
growing the business

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 Open Source and Flash
 Today
 Create New Possibilities
Do the Unimaginable

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Thank you
Expanding the Possibilities
of Storage
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