Hyperstone Webinar – There’s More to a Storage System Than Meets the Eye

Founded in 1990, Hyperstone is a fabless NAND flash memory controller company enabling safe, reliable and secure storage systems. The company designs, develops and delivers high-quality, innovative semiconductor solutions to enable its customers to produce world-class products for industrial, embedded, automotive and global data storage applications. With a pedigree like this, you can bet the company helped a lot of companies navigate the many choices associated with storage systems. Hyperstone will be presenting an informative webinar on the topic. A link to register for the webinar is coming. Read on to understand why there’s more to a storage system than meets the eye.

The Webinar Presenter

Steffen Allert is the webinar presenter. He heads the global sales organization of Hyperstone, orchestrating the company’s worldwide engagements with clients. For almost two decades he has adeptly bridged the gap between customers and engineers, amassing a profound understanding of the intricate nuances and demands intrinsic to storage design.

This experience has given many insights into navigating the conversation around trade-offs between reliability, security, performance, price, and endurance – critical for customers to ensure an optimal storage module. During the webinar, Steffen shares his substantial experience, explaining how storage solution choices can have a profound impact on the overall success of a product.

Many topics are covered by Steffen. The actual webinar title provides a clue about the breadth of the discussion.

Issues in Data Storage? Cyber Security, Data Privacy, AI, Boot Storage, IoT, and Mission Critical Data and Autonomous Driving

 The Webinar Topics

Steffen frames the initial discussion using the “iceberg” graphic shown above. He touches on the clear choices that lie above the water line:

Performance – This is one of the first criteria. Speed is key, but how long can the module hold that performance?

Price – Another top-of-mind item. But what exactly are you paying for?

As we venture below the water line, the topics become more subtle and far-reaching.

Use Case & Reliability – Where will the storage module be integrated? Into what kind of an application? How much storage is needed? Will It be reading or writing data? Is it in operation 24/7 or only occasionally?

Longevity & Supply – Realistically, how long should the end-application be in operation? Are you looking for long-term chip supply (+7 years) or is 2 years before EOL OK?

Your Data’s Value – Have you considered the true value of your data in relation to security or potential power failures? If your company was hacked, or a power outage resulted in a loss of data, what would the consequences be?

What Are You Willing to Trade Off? – You have heard it before, but you can’t have it all. To achieve the optimal solution, you must be prepared to make sacrifices for unnecessary functionality, which in turn allows optimization of other features.

With this setup, Steffen goes through several application examples and use cases to illustrate the options available and how to navigate the choices for an optimal result for the specific product and deployment being developed.  Environmental and quality considerations are also discussed.

Steffen provides a very useful set of questions to be asking as you make your storage system choices and a detailed view of the key trade-offs that impact the final product. Anyone who requires an optimized storage system for their product will get substantial benefit from this webinar.

To Learn More

The webinar will be broadcast on Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific time. You can register for the webinar here. I highly recommend it. Hyperstone also has a rich download library on their website here. You can find lots of great storage design topics to dig into there. Clearly, there’s more to a storage system than meets the eye.

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