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In the past, Flash had a reputation for being complex and difficult to use.
Not anymore as Flash solutions have become incredibly simple to operate
and offer robust performance.
Simplify application administration and storage operations.
High performance Flash systems have always offered impressive performance,
but they have often not been enterprise ready. They can be like race cars,
offering extraordinary speed and performance while not being practical for
everyday use. Now that ease-of-use issues have been addressed, organizations
may finally obtain race-car-like performance and enjoy the features they
want—for the cost of a mini-van.
Flash provides fewer tiers of storage and allows you to provision your storage
and SAN much more quickly than spinning disks. This greatly simplifies
administration of the Flash system, making routine tasks much faster and
providing you with substantially increased usable resources in the areas of
density, capacity, and performance.
Reduce or eliminate configuration tuning and tweaking.
New cost-effective Flash arrays offer far more IO capacity, relieving
administrators of the need to tweak and tune systems to get small
performance improvements from hard drives. Today’s Flash solutions also allow
organizations rapid recovery from a drive failure. While it could take a day and
a half to rebuild a traditional failed hard drive, an IT organization can recover
from a Flash drive failure in a couple of minutes.
Enable resources to focus on higher-priority projects.
With far faster performance times and greatly reduced RAID failover recovery
times, Flash offers IT staff the opportunity to do many routine tasks more
effectively. You no longer need to devote endless hours to optimizing the
system and reducing data volume. Rather than tweaking and tuning, you can
focus on enhancing the robustness of the storage network, improving the
internal architecture, or dedicate your time to other higher-priority IT projects.