SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Abstract
When flash (solid state) arrived for storage there was a lot of talk and VC investment around the All Flash Array or AFA. But flash offers many choices and not all are popular. Beginning with the current deployments based on hundreds of interviews with storage professionals, this session will show how deployments start slowly at first for specific purposes, such as improvement of specific application performance. But as the magic line is passed of cost vs. benefit we may see the replacement of disk capacity with solid state. Each of the solid state options, including hybrid arrays, solid state in servers, and all-flash array, has different benefits and costs associated with it. Is 2014 the time to begin? Where and how are storage professionals applying this technology to justify the investments?