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Is an all-flash data center worth it?
This article is part of the Storage issue of May 2017, Vol. 16, No. 3
The concept of an all-flash data center has been floating around for several years, driven by the continual decrease in cost of the media and ongoing improvement in the technology that surrounds it. The result is almost every all-flash vendor is claiming price parity with hard disk-based systems. If you can substantiate the claim of price parity with HDDs, and apply it liberally, then there is no reason for an organization not to go all flash. Imagine a data center where every I/O request is answered instantly, no matter the type of data. It would permanently eliminate data management and performance tuning headaches. The future of all-flash storage systems is bright. The cost per gigabyte of flash media continues to decline, while the software technology managing those systems delivers increasing levels of reliability. Storage system software is also evolving, becoming increasingly multithreaded to extract additional performance out of CPU cores to keep pace with flash performance in a more cost-effective way. Hurdles of the ...
Features in this issue
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Is an all-flash data center worth it?
The elevated cost of flash technology is a reason to limit flash usage. Find out what other factors go into a flash purchase and how it's used in today's data centers.
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Scalability drives SAN market growth
Better performing, more scalable and capacious storage area networks are required for ever-growing amounts of unstructured data, demanding applications and big data analytics.
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Use the cloud to enhance the functions of primary storage
Learn some of the best ways to leverage public cloud as a storage tier to complement primary storage and make data centers more efficient.
Columns in this issue
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Evolution of storage technology ending one-size-fits-all approach
Some storage vendors want you to think that one type of storage will work for all scenarios and enterprises. Thanks to changes in storage technology that's not always the case.
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Symbolic IO IRIS a breakthrough in server, storage architecture
Intensified RAM Intelligent Server from newcomer Symbolic IO questions fundamental and often unstated foundations of contemporary server and storage design.