A memo from Captain Obvious: flash continues to change how we think about storage.
For me, the party started way back in 2008 when EMC introduced an enterprise-grade flash drive for Symmetrix. Fast forward to 2014, and the party is still rocking strong …
Up to now, most of my customer discussions have been how to best use flash with precision: surgical strikes on key areas where IO response times are a problem. The approach makes a certain sense: flash drives are more expensive than the magnetic spinning variety.
But in the last six months, it’s not unusual to meet a customer that sees themselves going “all flash” either now, or before too long.
The mindset has clearly begun to shift from "use flash to manage performance problems" to "use flash as the default". We're not talking exotic use cases, it's showing up in bread-and-butter enterprise IT settings.
And the motivations are quite interesting.
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