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What’s Holding Back the All-flash Data Center?

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Eric Slack

Flash has certainly become more affordable over the past several years and we continue to see more and more storage products introduced that include flash in one form or another. But most flash implementations are hybrid in nature, requiring that…

Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Eric Slack

Adding flash to disk array systems was inevitable, as spinning disk-based storage hit the performance wall and virtualization kept pushing the demand for more IOPS. These early systems were expensive, implementation was difficult and feature sets were extremely basic or…

Is All-flash Ready for the Data Center?

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Eric Slack

Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…