Thursday, March 2, 2017

Should you Implement Flash Storage? Can you afford NOT to?

By: Paul Oh   Categories:Storage and Data Management, Flash Storage

Should you Implement Flash Storage? Can you afford NOT to?

A recent Frost and Sullivan survey ranks storage as one of IT leaders' top concerns due to extreme growth and changing needs. I’ve highlighted some key takeaways from the report which emphasize why Flash technology is growing in demand when it comes to addressing today’s storage needs. 

As stated in the report:

“Data is a strategic business asset, and your storage solutions enable you to leverage that asset."

The trend toward all-flash storage in the enterprise is here to stay. If you’re adding storage without considering flash, you are definitely doing yourself a disservice. Addressing your current challenges by throwing more spinning disks at the problem can be more costly in the future when you replace the disks. You can re-purpose existing storage for tier 2 (lower performance) and tier 3 (archival) data requirements and implement flash on your mission-critical, data intensive applications.

With high data growth and associated challenges, you should be looking for the best solution that will not only accommodate your needs today but also future-proof your IT environment. If you're investing in new storage technology, you should consider flash in at least a portion of your overall storage strategy. The solution has matured and prices have dropped to a point that you cannot afford not to consider Flash. It has evolved to address businesses’ changing needs and is now becoming a mainstream solution offering great price/performance value.

The trend towards Flash Storage continues to soar due to demand for higher performance required for continuous  access to data by a wide variety of applications or combined with data from multiple sources. The days of constantly adding hardware for growing volumes of data is no longer sufficient and does not deliver the performance level sought to process in real time at a reasonable cost. Today's hyper-competitive business environment requires that companies get their data to work for them.
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New systems based on flash technology provide greater density, faster transactions, higher availability, and greater power efficiency than traditional hard drives. The right flash storage system can be added to your data center environment to optimize the most critical data workloads, including those that rely on powerful, next-generation mainframes. With the right flash system, you will benefit from the performance that will also offset top-line costs.
 flash storage technology and offers insightful tips on selecting a system that can deliver the performance you need in a budget-friendly way.

If you want to discuss your data storage challenges in more detail, feel free to contact me.

Paul Oh, VP of Technical Services
Sentia

Paul Oh
Paul Oh

Paul Oh

Paul Oh is a co-founder of Sentia and responsible for the strategic direction of the company's technical services, incubating new offerings, and overall technology / solution planning.

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Paul is responsible for Sentia’s strategic direction from a technology and services standpoint. He has 20 years of experience, specializing in data protection, back-up and recovery. With his extensive expertise architecting and implementing enterprise infrastructure solutions, Paul has implemented projects throughout North America and worldwide. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Electrical Engineering.

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