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Flash Storage: Shift to Solid State Shakes Up Storage industry
Technology on all fronts is changing rapidly, and storage is no exception. 2014 saw increasing innovation, but often coming more from startups and smaller storage companies than from the established names like EMC, NetApp and Juniper.
Rob Commins, vice president of marketing at flash-driven storage vendor Tegile Systems, said that “I have been in the data storage business since 1984, and I have never seen such dramatic change in such a short amount of time as we have this year [2014]. The tectonic shifts being driven by virtualization and solid state media are amazing.”
Commins offered a set of predictions for where the enterprise storage industry is headed in 2015.
- Better performance, capacity and pricing. NAND Flash density is expected to aggressively improve, enabling better performance and pricing. PCIe flash and NVDIMMs will begin to be used in shared storage devices. Pricing, especially in the 250GB to 2TB capacity range, is expected to be attractive.
- Flash storage will positively impact analytics and Big Data. Enterprise jobs involving large data sets can run as much as 80 times faster compared to systems using traditional storage.
- Data centers to be impacted by denser small-footprint storage. It takes now only a single 2U arrays to store 100TB, where previously three 42U racks were needed. Acquisition and operating costs for storage are dropping quickly.
- Expect a storage market landscape of many startups, mergers and acquisitions.
- Hyper-converged systems gain in popularity, but don’t materially displace storage.
- Storage as a Service and utility-based storage purchasing will become increasingly popular.
Gartner recently named Tegile as a ‘visionary’ in the general-purpose disk array storage market Magic Quadrant. Two of the reasons Gartner gave for this positioning include:
- Unlike many of the big vendors, Tegile’s IntelliFlash storage is flexible to support multiple storage and networking protocols, including Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, Network File System (NFS), and Server Message Block (SMB)
- Tegile IntelliFlash uses flash for read/write caching to enable the scaling of both performance and capacity
