Changing the Economics of Flash Storage Delivering Flash at the Price of Disk

Virtualization and the explosion of I/O-intensive applications for big data analytics and database transactions increase the demand for higher levels of storage performance while the growth of unstructured data drives the need for capacity-optimized storage. This session will explore how to balance fast performance, capacity and cost with a scale-out architecture approach to enable organizations to adjust their infrastructure cost-effectively with new technology, like flash and tiering to address growing workload and capacity needs, rather than taking a rip-and-replace approach. We will discuss how to achieve flash performance at the price of an all-disk solution and the benefits of tiering across SLC, MLC and HDDs while increasing capacity with hybrid arrays that offer a lower price point per/GB than all-flash arrays.

Learning Objectives

Questions to ask before adding flash to existing data center infrastructure
Benefits of flash like lower cost for performance, lower power consumption
Benefits of tiering like improving performance for data intensive apps
Best practices from customer iland Internet Solutions use of flash & tiering