Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE Original Content: On Thursday, April 11, 2013, IBM announced a $1 billion investment to drive Flash technology to combat the challenges of big data. SiliconAngle and Wikibon covered the live announcement in New York City with real-time analysis and interviews with IBM executives, partners and customers.
Steve Mills, Senior VP and Group Executive of IBM Software and Systems, talks about the $1 billion the company is investing in Flash, which they believe will help transform analytics and transaction systems, as well as change the nature of the whole data center to be much more compact and efficient. Watch the full video here
Bob Bruce, Vice President of Federal Sales at VION Corporation discusses how his clients are transforming their storage and IT infrastructure with IBM Flash, enabling them to process more data faster to get their jobs done. Watch the full video here
Brad McCredie, VP and IBM Fellow talks about how IBM has been pulling together the server and storage as an integrated piece and how IBM Flash eliminated many of the barriers to make it a single entity. Watch the full video here
Colin Parris, GM of Power Systems at IBM, discusses how IBM Flash complements database, allowing businesses to do large transactions very quickly, increasing performance and business value. Watch the full video here
VP of Product Management for IBM Information Management and Software, Inhi Cho Suh, discusses how IBM Flash marries into some of the recent IBM announcements, including DB2, in the world of big data. Watch the full video here
IT Ops Director of Technology Services at Sprint Nextel, Karim Abdullah, talks about how Sprint is using IBM Flash in their IT data center space to address many performance and storage issues to increase customer satisfaction in their call centers. Watch the full video here
IBM’s Krishna Nathan, VP of Storage Development Systems, discusses the evolution of storage over the last 5 or 10 years and how advents like IBM Flash are opening up possibilities of tighter integration between storage and the rest of the system. Watch the full video here
IBM VP and Business Line Executive, Laura Guio, discusses what many customers have experienced with the new IBM Flash Device, allowing them to enhance the performance of their systems, and what progression customers will see in the future. Watch the full video here
Steve Kenniston, Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist for IBM explains the tweet chat he hosted during the event discussing the future of Flash and shares some important topics covered and attendee comments. Watch the full video here
Vincent Hsu, IBM Fellow, talks about how the restructuring of system design and architecture can help you do more with your data. Watch the full video here
Articles from Wikibon and SiliconANGLE
- Storage will Radically Change Systems and Application Design
- Analysis: A New World Order #FlashAhead – Modern Purpose Built Application IT Infrastructure
- How Flash is Changing App Delivery, Productivity in the Datacenter
- Breaking Analysis: IBM Announces Billion Dollar Investment in Flash Storage #flashahead
- Flash is Just as Transformative as Open-Source Big Data, says IBM’s Steve Mills
- Why is Flash the Future of IT? Krishna Nathan, VP of Storage Development for IBM, Explains
- Sprint Nextel Explains Why Flash Finally Makes Sense : Pricing
- http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/04/17/how-to-effectively-share-metadata-between-apps-the-flash-driven-transformation-of-it/
- The Storage Alchemist Talks Flash Innovation + Business Value
