Typical enterprise data
growth is roughly 40%
per year, with 60% of all
storage space taken up
by copies of data
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IT Spending Intentions Survey, ESG
Research Report, IDC, February 2014
The volume of data you need to manage and protect grows at a pace that is difficult to keep up
with—roughly 40% per year for the typical enterprise. Add to that the performance demands
of new applications—instant response times, always-on availability, and anytime, anywhere
access—and data center managers are often left with storage challenges that can't be
addressed with traditional spinning disk technology.
To meet these challenges, many enterprises are turning to flash storage. A viable flash storage
solution must provide:
While some flash vendors focus solely on speed or affordability, your flash solution needs to
provide all four attributes above, along with operational efficiencies that help reduce IT run
rates. High density, large capacity flash arrays can reduce your storage footprint by 80%, with
commensurate reductions in power and cooling costs. With the cost of flash storage now as low
as $1.50 per useable GB of storage, the all-flash data center is a viable alternative. The future of
storage is all-flash.
The future of storage-flash
The all-flash data center is a viable alternative
Business white paper
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Speed
High IOPS at predictable response times under 1 ms to drive more
revenue-generating transactions
Affordability
Price parity with high performance HDDs
Enterprise resiliency
Mission-critical availability and zero data loss RPO
Scale
Petabyte scale for enterprise growth
