LSI: Changes from the computing architecture to the data flow architecture

Something happened in August, but the data presented is backward: Google 1 minutes worth 110,000 dollars, Amazon 100 minutes worth 7 million dollars and so on. We can feel clearly that the data that beats every minute is being collected, kept (stored) and analyzed, and brings value! This is the nature of cloud computing and large data, and one of the fundamental reasons IT systems need to transition from traditional architectures to cloud architectures.
Remember the fifth session of China Cloud Computing Conference, LSI President and CEO Abhi Talwalkar clear: "Cloud computing business value in the next few years can reach 20 billion of dollars, and we believe that the cloud industry value will reach 3 trillion U.S. dollars." "
His judgment was believable. Global 85% servers, 40% desktops and notebooks, 50% of external storage use LSI storage chips; Global mobile phone 50%-70% wireless traffic through LSI chips; LSI in SAS, RAID controllers, SSD controllers, Readchannel, preamp, Axxia Network processor and custom ASIC, etc., and the successful acquisition of SandForce is to make LSI access to the Flash No.2 market voice. All this, decided that LSI will be with the most sensitive enterprises such as Internet giants, in the technical rhythm, maintain a high degree of unity.
Just as senior expert Robert Ober of the LSI CTO office said to Csdn, "almost all large data centers are directly using LSI products, and OEMs and ODM are our partners." Through direct communication with customers, and through OEM, ODM partner feedback information, we have been closely follow customer needs. For example, Facebook and LSI are closely related, and we often work with Facebook's data center engineers to develop the solutions they need. As the largest expense item in the data center after the CPU and memory, we see changes in architecture that are taking place in the context of shared trends. "
This change is that large data will drive the computing architecture to evolve rapidly to the data flow architecture. Specifically, the datacenter schema will flow to the data stream, modular, rack-level, pool structure development, hardware resources will eventually achieve loose coupling, from the share-free, OEM-driven redundant rack system to share Io, simplify the cluster system of "aggregation" of the direction of the evolution, the final implementation of workload dynamic deployment.
This idea is clearly in line with the software definition data center, but is more basic. Supporting the "Data Flow" architecture of the Grand Blueprint is a full range of LSI products and solutions, such as Axxia, Databolt, Truestore, Syncro MegaRAID, SandForce, Nytro and so on. One of the most interesting concerns of the industry's technology circles is the ability to represent the SSD storage processor sAndforce and PCIe Flash solutions for Nytro.

                                  & nbsp; Depolymerization = resource Pooling
LSI is one of the most important paths to the data Flow architecture: Flash memory. In the United States, flash memory has set off a frenzy of internet and VC markets. On the one hand, Google through the Janus New system, Facebook through the mcdipper new technology ancestors of the flash to the data center, on the other hand, TMS (Texas Memory System), Extremio, Scaleio, SandForce and other Flash enterprises have been acquired by IBM, EMC, LSI and so on. Data show that the United States now claims to do its own flash business has reached 137. Pure Storage, a start-up start-up, announced a $150 million trillion in financing, and the 5-round total of $245 million trillion has spurred the industry's nerves. The
LSI is also speeding up the development of a new generation of LSI SandForce. For example, the LSI Shield technology just presented at the California Flash Memory Summit. Shield is a unique implementation of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), which will be used in a new generation of SandForce flash controllers. The technology combines hard decision, soft decision and DSP, which can provide the optimized comprehensive error correcting code (ECC) solution for flash memory. As an advanced method of error correction, the biggest feature of this system is that it can achieve enterprise-class SSD durability and data integrity even with the use of the high error rate of flash memory.
more than that, there is the Durawrite Virtual Capacity (DVC, a unique SandForce Flash controller feature that expands the usable storage capacity of typical data based on the physical capacity of the underlying flash memory) and supports Toshiba's second-generation advanced 19NM NAND flash memory (A19NM) enables SSD manufacturers to produce lower-cost SSD products.
But for many banks in the United States today to "PCIe do a flash pool sharing" approach, Robert Ober does not agree: "In practice, because it is through networking or network exchange methods to complete, so not smooth." We're thinking of using SAS as a storage pool and then sharing it for multiple servers, which is simpler, more reliable, and cheaper. In my view, flash sharing, the middle does not need any software or hardware layer of intervention, but the Flash and server direct connection between, so that the value of flash memory will not be reduced。 "
In his view," tiered storage, according to performance requirements, from the primary storage to level, up to level three storage cache, I believe that in a long time the slower disk is still primary storage, SSDs may be a faster storage level, PCIe is a more high-performance storage, while also has DRAM Memory storage and some newer memory appears. The

                                  & nbsp;   Rack evolution from redundant systems to simplified systems
This is also the current status of the storage industry. After all, SSD's storage cost is 5-10 times higher than that of HDD, there is a significant gap in capacity, and the gap between hundreds of GB and several TB mainstream products is also obvious. The global storage figures for 2012 illustrate this, with HDD shipments of 585 million, and flash memory shipments of only 35 million.
However, as the Internet and other industries to the software definition of storage and software definition data Center (SDDC) of the ongoing in-depth exploration, storage technology into a rapid change and response period. It also means that the LSI has a great opportunity to get from behind the scenes. As Robert Ober said: "We are working more closely with industry-leading software developers, such as VMware, OpenStack, to meet more new market demands." "
This, the Chinese market, is full of development opportunities for LSI.