Initially, IT organizations often deploy an all-flash storage system to solve a performance problem for a specific application workload. Then, unfortunately, they become a victim of their own success. Often the initial experience with flash is so good that the organization starts to move other workloads on to the all-flash system. But if this resource can not scale-out both from a storage CPU and flash storage capacity perspective, to meet the expanding needs of the environment, performance can suffer across all application workloads. And since flash systems require a more significant investment than traditional storage systems, IT organizations can’t afford to make the wrong decision.
As we discuss in our latest report, businesses need to look at all-flash architectures that can meet their short-term and ongoing storage performance and capacity needs across the entire data center. By adopting a solution that can start very small and scale out over time, businesses can further enhance their infrastructure consolidation efforts, meet performance demands and avoid overspending on their flash storage purchases. But there are other important considerations that IT planners need to be mindful of when shopping for an all-flash system. Such as:
- Can the solution start out small but scale-out over time?
- Do CPU and storage nodes resources have to be added in unison or is it more granular?
- Can nodes across the all-flash system be centrally managed?
- Can the all-flash system handle a variety of I/O workload patterns while still providing data efficiency services like compression and deduplication?
In short, it is critically important for IT planners to look at the overall architecture of the all-flash array to determine if the solution is capable of meeting all of the storage performance needs of the data center. Our latest report, available without registration, “Understanding All-Flash Architectures”, provides a comprehensive outline of the architecture and functional attributes that an all-flash array should deliver to the data center to make flash storage adoption successful initially and, most importantly, long term.
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As a 22 year IT veteran, Colm has worked in a variety of capacities ranging from technical support of critical OLTP environments to consultative sales and marketing for system integrators and manufacturers. His focus in the enterprise storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions space extends from mainframe and distributed computing environments across a wide range of industries.
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