Flash: The Future of Storage
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Flash storage provides faster performance than traditional storage and can help enterprises innovate and transform more quickly. It consumes less space, power, and generates less heat than traditional storage. Some key use cases for flash storage include big data analytics, transactional workloads, frequently accessed large archives, online search applications, and using flash as RAM for in-memory computing. When evaluating flash-based storage, enterprises should understand their current storage challenges, analyze specific workloads, define primary concerns around performance, capacity or cost, choose the appropriate flash storage type, and evaluate the cost per gigabyte and cost per I/O operations.
Flash: The Future of Storage
- 1. Flash: The Future of Enterprise Storage Anil Chopra VP-Research and Consulting CyberMedia Research and Services
- 2. Storage Market Overview Enterprise storage no longer meant to simply store the ever-increasing volumes of data Multiple delivery channels demand faster processing of transactions with zero data loss The real value of storage today: Quick access, Fast Processing, Actionable Insights Traditional storage incapable of handling these requirements Adoption of Flash storage much higher than traditional storage globally So is Flash Storage the Answer?
- 3. The Benefits of Flash Storage Innovate quickly to enable IT and business transformation Consumes lesser space, power, and generates lesser heat, which help reduce data center power, cooling, and space costs Provides far better performance Higher operating temperatures and greater shock-resistance makes them suitable for industrial environments Longer life and more reliable Constantly reducing Cost per GB Secondary Economic Benefits like fewer application servers, lower software licensing, reduced admin costs
- 4. Some Use Cases Big Data Analytics 01 Transactional Workloads 02 Large archives that need to be accessed more frequently 03 Online Search 04 Flash as RAM for in- memory computing 05
- 5. Evaluating Flash Based Storage What are your current storage challenges? Determine current and future specific workloads Define your primary concerns: performance, capacity, both, or cost Choose type of storage: All-Flash, Hybrid, Traditional storage Evaluate the cost/GB and cost/IOPS Storage performance is only one parameter, also consider the features set
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