As powerful and beneficial as flash storage can be, many organizations are overspending on capacity they don’t need, deploying flash in the wrong places, and inefficiently spending on flash applications that are not appropriate for their real business objectives.
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. As powerful and beneficial as flash storage can be, many organizations are overspending on capacity they don’t need, deploying flash in the wrong places, and inefficiently spending on flash applications that are not appropriate for their real business objectives. There is little argument that flash represents the most disruptive technology to emerge for enterprise networks in recent years. Offering higher IOPS and lower latency, flash-based SSDs reduce the need for storage overprovisioning and require much less power, cooling and physical space than HDDs. And not only are they more operationally cost effective, the actual costs of flash have been consistently coming down, creating a very attractive offer of greater performance at a lowering cost.
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