
What was the point of this article??
A customer replaced something 5 years old based on hdd with something new and flash-based and the customer saw that it ran faster than the old kit.
Whats the news here?
Mitsubishi Power Systems' Americas (MPSA) says its SAP applications positively fly using flash arrays from an industry newbie – after being hamstrung on HP storage. The company, based in Orlando, Florida, had a SAP SQL Server database implementation that was dragging its feet, so much so that the end users were resisting the …
I have a vision....
CIO: we just bought that 3 million SAP Licenses and Consulting so storage must be cheap - could't get a discount with SAP
Admin: but...
CIO: cheap! every disk is the same!
Admin: buys FATA Array, "cheap".
Years later, SAP performance hurts business much, new CIO in place. The former went on to new challenges - he is known for implementing SAP at low cost...
new CIO: my iPAD has flash memory - at least I read so - and it runs fast --- so why don't we buy flash for SAP?
Admin (still the same poor Guy): yes, but it is very expens...
CIO: buy it! I want iPad style performance in SAP!
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