What Makes the Difference
This article captures key trends that are becoming evident to everyone: Flash technology is here to stay. Tiered storage systems based on hybrid arrays deliver cost effective and performance optimized storage.
What makes the real difference is how data is managed and moved to the appropriate tier. With today’s workloads driven by people accessing information in real time, and machine data that is collected and communicated continuously, the resultant workload on storage is fundamental different than in the recent past. Some projections anticipate 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, all gathering and sharing information in real time. So, what will differentiate solutions from vendors is how hybrid storage systems identify and move data among tiers. Look for those that do this in real time. Real-time tiering makes the difference.
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