At the recently concluded FlashCUBE mini event, Wikibon CTO David Floyer shares his thoughts on clients’ perspective on flash technology, as well as flash-related issues that the average IT person deals with on a daily basis.

“The everyday IT guy is interested in making the applications that they have on the floor work better, work faster. The most difficult applications to get around faster are always the database applications. The first area that these are being applied to is allowing database applications to run faster, to take away the issues with the storage admin, the DBAs etc; fighting about who’s got the problem about how to make it go faster. You’re seeing that applied on almost universally to existing databases, taking away the operation issues, taking away the headaches of the DBA…”

Flash is going mainstream. IBM, for one, is going all-in, making a billion-dollar investment in the flash market. Big Blue also recently acquired Texas Memory Systems, a developer of high-performance flash memory solutions based in Houston.

“Flash technology is a game changer for our clients and IBM is committed to delivering industry-leading Flash-optimized capabilities as a cornerstone of our Smarter Storage strategy,” said Brian Truskowski, General Manager, IBM System Storage and Networking. “The TMS solutions extend our broad portfolio of Flash-optimized storage arrays and flash optimization software, providing our clients unmatched value.”

Indeed, flash is revolutionizing the datacenter and all the components, jobs included, that go along with the datacenter.  To learn more about flash’s impact on storage architecture, networking and datacenter infrastructure, see Floyer’s entire segment with Truskowski below.