All-flash hope-dash: The future is hybrid

In the future we will have an all-flash hybrid concept. This can’t be considered a prediction; it’s just a fact. If you look around, a large number of vendors are craving Intel’s 3D Xpoint memory and this will be the next tier 0 (or cache) for many newly designed storage arrays. 3D XPoint in short 3D XPoint is a new class of …

[Anonymous Coward]

How fast is slower than DRAM?

I'm still waiting on a clock speed range for 3D XPoint. Plenty of machines I'd love to swap for RAM entirely 'cuz they have the slows. Just food for thought (fodder for my torture chamber...err...laboratory).

[Anonymous Coward]

When you meet with Nimble...

Ask them if they ever plan on having that AFA out. Or maybe they'll just bypass that (since they're late to the game anyway) and go right for a 3D XPoint product. I suppose they could have that out by 2025. Maybe. But I'm not betting on it.

[jake]

You'll kill my tape library ...

... when you pry it out of my cold, dead data center.

This afternoon's user musings? Who gives a fuck. They certainly don't.

[Anonymous Coward]

Agree, hybrid is here to stay

Make sense to have Hybrid Flash. There will always be some new technology faster and more expensive, that makes sense to combine it with the more general used technology.

I will like to see Tintri's VM Aware Storage as a Hybrid Flash :-)

[MityDK]

Re: Agree, hybrid is here to stay

I doubt it would be any faster than their current hybrid arrays for VSI!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hybrid (Server) Array?

Why all this talk about anything external to the app server? Why not have this tech IN the server running the app? Get rid of the fabric altogether. What am I missing here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Hybrid (Server) Array?

How would you remove fabric if you want to provide High Availability and Data Protection on a server based array? Storage close to application for low latency with Server based array/Hyperconverged array is such a myth. One can get consistent lower latency today with external arrays as compared to Server based array/Hyperconverged array. For ultra low latency media like 3D X-point in external storage, there is NVMe fabric.

[skenniston]

All-Flash-Arrays are not always the answer

I have been following and thinking about this post for a while when it comes to flash. We recently did a post that talks to this exact topic. http://www.infinidat.com/why-inexpensive-enterprise-storage-is-an-existential-threat/