some come with premium costs per floor square. Traditional storage as we know can now store large amounts of data but to store petabytes with good performance you need a lot of it. That requires a lot of floor space, power and cooling, all of which comes at a high price. What we really need is technology which has a small form factor, requires less environmentals but also performs fast. This is where I believe that flash memory based storage is the future. I am not the only one that thinks this, many CIOs in the top 500 fortune companies have flash storage on their agenda. Flash solves all the problems of today’s data growth. It has a small form factor so you can now squeeze many TBs into every rack space unit, saving massively on data centre space. In the years to come this density will keep increasing. As flash doesn’t use any moving parts (apart from fans), it requires up to 80% less power and cooling. At the same time flash memory provides IO performance which is up to 10-15x faster than traditional storage. Flash can process data in microseconds rater than milliseconds and this is very important in the move toward real-time analytics. This saving in costs and increase in performance allows businesses to process more data in a shorter time frame. This will allow them to expand their use of data and look at it in different ways. The ability to quickly store and analyse data as it comes in is so powerful.
Price is, as always, a major factor in adopting technology. However thanks to the mass adoption of flash in consumer products and advances in the technology to make it smaller, the price points are now so close to traditional storage that it makes sense to place all the hot critical data onto flash. Over the next couple of years we will see that as the price drops even more, businesses will start to adopt flash into tier 2 and tier 3. This is when we will start to see business place petabytes of this zettabytes of data stored in flash storage.
So if data is important to your business then ensure that you place the same level
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