Paper Title: Overcoming Obstacles to the 4th Industrial Revolution with Flash-Native Storage

Paper Abstract: The ultra-deep level of digital connectivity and convergence that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to deliver has yet to be widely realized. To get their faster, forward-thinking businesses are already investing heavily in 4IR technologies. Since 2012, companies have poured more than $646 billion into 4IR technology investments (per PwC - formerly known as Price-WaterhouseCoopers). But no matter how focused they are on shaping their place in a 4IR future, too many organizations are standing in the way of their own progress by ignoring a key step: implementing high-performing storage. Storage infrastructure that can support modern applications is a necessary foundation for 4IR because it is built for the demands of automation and to access new sources of data, like intelligent sensors used in IoT. In this session, Pure Storage's Hari Kannan will discuss how organizations can overcome this obstacle and innovate in today's 4IR by using flash-native storage. After all, without modern storage, it's complex and time-consuming to attempt adapting to modern cloud architectures and to scale resources for multiple workloads and variable data patterns. THese efforts will diminish ROI (return on investment) for your most valuable asset - your data - while crippling investments in capabilities that are so critical to supporting 4IR technologies.

Paper Author: Hari Kannan, MTS, Pure Storage

Author Bio: Hari Kannan is a technical director of engineering at Pure Storage, and hardware architect for FlashBlade, Pure’s scale-out, all-flash file and object storage platform. Hari received a PhD from Stanford University, focusing on computer architecture.