Opinion: Flash Technology – strong tendency to 2017 – SAPO Tek

16-01-2017 19:06

In the time of the balance sheet and perspectives on the trends of the year, Daniel Cruz highlights the importance of flash technology and anticipates its strategic value and growth potential of the business.

By Daniel Cross (*)

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Given the rapid growth that is occurring in the market of infrastructure of storage full in flash memory, which according to estimates from Gartner made last year will grow at an annual rate composed of 37% to pass of 1.430 million us dollars in 2014 to about 7,000 million dollars in 2019, the flash technology has to recreate the perception that there is of itself within the sector. Traditionally, it was understood that the main argument of the flash memory was the big performance and reduced latency and power consumption.

Generally, the infrastructure totally flash are used to dealing with applications that require the highest income, from databases to Web pages and platforms of trading, up to the large volume of work that represent the infrastructure of virtual desktops (VDI).

nevertheless, the data centers that are fully based on flash, which until now could consider almost a chimera, are being called to become a reality. The demand for applications of high performance that go beyond the optimum performance of the systems flash traditional is increasing continuously, to the point, although currently no data centre to use exclusively flash storage, Gartner estimate that, by 2020, 25% of data centers will only flash. It is precisely for this reason that we believe that the rhetoric around the flash storage must change.

at The operational level, when speaking of the flash technology, the technology experts still focus obsessively on the numbers of income when, in spite of this, the focus of the debate should be the service. In general, the arrays fully flash offer income levels that are able to handle any set of data, so that, each year, the major manufacturers compete more aggressively in the arena of the cost.

we are at a tipping point for flash technology, which has ceased to be a technology that simply makes life easier of the departments computer, to also offer strategic value and potential for expansion of the business.

(*) Territory Manager-NetApp Uk