01. Vish Mulchand, HPE, visits #theCUBE!. (00:19)
02. Inge Erling Kjoisvik, Varner, visits #theCUBE!. (00:41)
03. The All Flash "Waves". (00:54)
04. All About Varner. (02:49)
05. The Varner Flash Relationship. (05:08)
06. Flash Bringing Simplicity and Flexibility. (07:48)
07. Flash Saves Customers on Duplication. (10:48)
08. Flash's Business Impact. (13:56)
09. The Storage Competition for HPE. (15:12)
10. Will Flash Be Replaced?. (17:36)
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What are the keys to running flash in a retail environment? | #HPEDiscover
by BEV TERRELL
While many tech companies have touted the benefits of flash drives over hard drives for a while now — they’re faster, smaller, more energy efficient and shock-proof — they were also much more expensive. However, like all things in technology, prices have declined over time, and so flash is becoming much more attractive to organizations of all sizes.
“I think we’ve seen different waves of flash. The first one, in 2012, was the performance wave; a small number of applications that needed that performance,” said Vish Mulchand, senior director of product management and marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
Mulchand said he now thinks we are in Wave 2 of flash, or the affordability wave, and we’re on the cusp of Wave 3. He believes the considerations of Wave 3 will be the acceleration of applications (storage, compute, network); simplification; risk management; and investments. How do companies invest into the IT asset that they’re purchasing, and how does it stay fresh over time?
Mulchand and Inge Kjølsvik, head of infrastructure at Varner Gruppen AS, recently joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU, held in London. (*Disclosure below) They discussed flash advantages in the world of retail, as well as the appeal of its simplicity for organizations.
Flash as a fit for retail
Varner Gruppen is a Norway-based retail fashion company, with 1,600 stores in northern Europe. Its concerns are common ones in retail; it wants to retain customer loyalty, it wants to give customers the information they need, and it wants its employees and customers to have fast response times on apps and in stores.
“The main reason for us to go to flash is that the amount of data is growing; we have more than 1 million items that we want to do big data analytics behind,” said Kjølsvik. He also explained that speed on in-store apps is very important, as store employees need instant responses to take care of retail customers in the shop. As a retailer, the company also maintains huge picture libraries, and it needs the performance so that customers can access them.
The appealing simplicity of flash
Mulchand explained that flash is simpler because “it just works. There isn’t a need to constantly change, tweak, respond to spikes; flash takes that all away.”
He said that, because of fewer worries with flash, his company’s customers are able to concentrate on their own core businesses rather than being concerned with drives.
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01. Vish Mulchand, HPE, visits #theCUBE!. (00:19)
02. Inge Erling Kjoisvik, Varner, visits #theCUBE!. (00:41)
03. The All Flash "Waves". (00:54)
04. All About Varner. (02:49)
05. The Varner Flash Relationship. (05:08)
06. Flash Bringing Simplicity and Flexibility. (07:48)
07. Flash Saves Customers on Duplication. (10:48)
08. Flash's Business Impact. (13:56)
09. The Storage Competition for HPE. (15:12)
10. Will Flash Be Replaced?. (17:36)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
.
What are the keys to running flash in a retail environment? | #HPEDiscover
by BEV TERRELL
While many tech companies have touted the benefits of flash drives over hard drives for a while now — they’re faster, smaller, more energy efficient and shock-proof — they were also much more expensive. However, like all things in technology, prices have declined over time, and so flash is becoming much more attractive to organizations of all sizes.
“I think we’ve seen different waves of flash. The first one, in 2012, was the performance wave; a small number of applications that needed that performance,” said Vish Mulchand, senior director of product management and marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
Mulchand said he now thinks we are in Wave 2 of flash, or the affordability wave, and we’re on the cusp of Wave 3. He believes the considerations of Wave 3 will be the acceleration of applications (storage, compute, network); simplification; risk management; and investments. How do companies invest into the IT asset that they’re purchasing, and how does it stay fresh over time?
Mulchand and Inge Kjølsvik, head of infrastructure at Varner Gruppen AS, recently joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU, held in London. (*Disclosure below) They discussed flash advantages in the world of retail, as well as the appeal of its simplicity for organizations.
Flash as a fit for retail
Varner Gruppen is a Norway-based retail fashion company, with 1,600 stores in northern Europe. Its concerns are common ones in retail; it wants to retain customer loyalty, it wants to give customers the information they need, and it wants its employees and customers to have fast response times on apps and in stores.
“The main reason for us to go to flash is that the amount of data is growing; we have more than 1 million items that we want to do big data analytics behind,” said Kjølsvik. He also explained that speed on in-store apps is very important, as store employees need instant responses to take care of retail customers in the shop. As a retailer, the company also maintains huge picture libraries, and it needs the performance so that customers can access them.
The appealing simplicity of flash
Mulchand explained that flash is simpler because “it just works. There isn’t a need to constantly change, tweak, respond to spikes; flash takes that all away.”
He said that, because of fewer worries with flash, his company’s customers are able to concentrate on their own core businesses rather than being concerned with drives.
