A claim that many all-flash vendors are making is they reached price parity with hard disk based arrays. If that is true, then organizations would be crazy to buy any storage system with a hard disk in it. But it seems organizations are still buying hard drives. Why? Do we really have price parity or not? In this StorageShort we discuss what price parity really means and why hard disk-based systems are still in demand and why that demand makes sense.
When it comes to Network Attach Storage, the case against all-flash may be even stronger. IT may be wise to invest in other areas instead of performance since most users can’t take advantage of it. Instead IT should look to deliver higher value services like enterprise file sync and share and integrated archiving. To learn more about the features that primary storage may need more than all flash watch our on-demand webinar “Storage Refresh? 3 Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have (but probably doesn’t)”.
George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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