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All-Flash storage arrays are providing organizations greater speed,
security, reliability and value from key business applications.
Greater application and database performance.
Today’s Flash systems can provide 100x to 1,000x times the IO
performance of a standard disk-based system. Such performance
improvements offer cost efficiencies and operational capacities that
were unthinkable even a year ago. Across the board, just about every
operation takes less time with Flash.
No issues with availability and reliability.
In the early days of Flash, initial forays into the market were not
impressive to most enterprise customers due to reliability issues
associated with Flash. However, such reliability issues were the result of
using Flash technology in conjunction with operating systems, drivers,
controllers, and applications that were not designed or optimized for
Flash storage. This technology mismatch created both reliability and
inefficiency issues when deploying Flash in the enterprise. However,
industry-leading organizations recognized the value of Flash and began
to incrementally address the technology inefficiencies.
Massive investments by companies like Pure Storage and other industry
leaders have addressed these reliability issues. Operating systems,
as well as RAID and HA schemes, have all been optimized for Flash.
As a result, Flash arrays today are more reliable than spinning disks.
With almost no moving parts, Flash exhibits far greater reliability and
performance consistency. And, because Flash allows an organization
to recover from a failure far more quickly, it is more dependable than a
spinning disk based system.