Flash Forward: Harnessing the Power of Flash Storage

If you are a CTO, IT manager, project manager, data center administrator or solution architect looking for an enterprise-grade solution to your organization’s data storage needs, then this book is designed to help guide your technical journey.

This book will inform you and guide you toward taking your very best first or next steps with flash. It starts from a historical perspective of how we got here, leading to the more immediate question for those embarking on a technical journey: why flash, and why now? From there, we enter into a deeper look at the various technology choices, deployment options, and implementations open to customers as they consider leveraging flash in their IT infrastructure. To conclude, we take a peek into the flash future and envision the emerging technologies that will help it to become an even more exciting part of tomorrow’s IT world.

About the Author

Mark Jauncey has worked in the IT industry since 1992, fulfilling a variety of roles in IT operations, presales technical consultancy, and training. After specializing as a SAN storage instructor with Hewlett Packard, he trained field engineers, sales and presales partner employees in HP EVA and MSA storage arrays preparing them for certification at Master ASE level. In recent years, he has worked in enterprise presales for a leading provider of IT storage, and also as a platform engineer for a cloud provider administering HPE 3PAR StoreServ arrays. Presently, Mark is involved in sales and technical training, leading sessions all over the UK and Europe.