5 Trends in Enterprise-class storage in large data age

As the business sector grows at an increasing rate, large organizations are now under great pressure to provide the most cost-effective and high-performance IT support Services 24x7. Information, as the organization's most valuable asset, usually has the highest maintenance costs. Today's organizations have recognized that the rapid storage, protection, access, and analysis of data in a large data age and the safe and cost-effective management of data are key to business success.

In the 2014, enterprises need to continue to use IT infrastructure to deliver high quality services quickly and efficiently, while the following large data age 5 enterprise-class storage trends cannot be overlooked.

The economic benefits of flash memory

Flash memory can handle data much faster than a traditional spinning disk, which is one of the options that organizations use to weigh performance against cost. Although the performance of flash memory in a storage hierarchy is higher than that of a traditional spinning disk, its cost remains the biggest impediment to organization deployment so far.

Looking ahead, the organization will start looking for suppliers that can break through traditional cost boundaries and offer full flash performance at lower cost. These technologies include the integration of various types of flash drives, such as the MLC Multilevel Unit and the SLC single unit, with automatic tiering (which autonomously distributes data and applications to the most appropriate storage media), which is a recognized way for customers to achieve full flash performance at a price comparable to disk.

Server-Side Flash

Consumers around the world want to get results instantly. Flash caching technology places the most frequently accessed data closer to the computer resource by storing the flash on the server system bus, minimizing the transmission of data from the server to the storage device, improving response speed, and improving read and write performance. Although server-side flash point solutions do exist, organizations can gain more value through integrated servers and SAN Flash technology in servers, not only reducing response time, but also sacrificing availability. With an integrated approach, users can treat flash memory in the server like any storage tier, gain the cost advantage of traditional SAN functionality and automatic tiering, and manage server-side flash memory as a "0-tier Flash" and from its SAN.

Fusion

The complexity associated with heterogeneity within the enterprise environment will be the focus in the coming months. The driving force behind the integration infrastructure is increased efficiency and agility in operations, applications, and service management. The benefits are not limited to implementing a single vendor, but also include reducing the cost of running applications, speeding up infrastructure deployment, accelerating and simplifying management, and reducing revenue delivery for application and cloud deployments. Converged solutions will be easier to implement, because organizations can choose from a blend of physical infrastructure products, where servers, storage, networks, and management are installed in the same chassis, or a software-based management layer, aggregating customers ' diverse infrastructure investments into a virtual converged infrastructure.

Software definition storage: Real trend or hype?

There is a lot of controversy and market confusion about the real definition of software definition storage (SDS), similar to the "cloud computing" definitions of the early years. The main attraction of SDS is flexibility, but more importantly, it can reduce the overall cost of storage. Today's organization of manufacturing servers and storage arrays has provided Sans, combining the lowest-cost industry-standard servers with economies of scale. The product-created "SDS" typically does not provide the full functionality of traditional Sans, and it is rare to see these vendors provide comprehensive services in both storage software [notes] and the hardware they are in. The real benefits and patterns of software-defined data centers will become clearer in the 2014.

Automation: Get your machine at your service

Some innovative storage vendors focus more on automation and easier to manage storage environments, which not only reduce the complexity of storage, but also reduce costs. Automated tiering, snapshots, virtual server and desktop integration/optimization, and data deduplication and compression are all ways in which organizations apply additional "behind-the-scenes" automation to reduce overall storage costs.

Many organizations are willing to buy more performance-intensive storage because they are not confident in their ability to measure and configure accurate real-time performance requirements. A storage system with automatic tiering allows users to allow the system to determine the optimal tiering of the data workload, and over time it moves the data to the media that best fits its actual needs and budget considerations. We expect to see automated tiering for flash adoption, as the MLC and SLC hybrid tiering of flash drives will enable customers to gain full flash performance on their previously purchased Rotary disk disks.

Automating some processes (such as storage availability, snapshots, and integration with virtualized software vendors) can also prevent IT staff from using large amounts of time to implement and manage storage environments. Intelligent automation technology makes systems easier to use and lowers overall storage costs for users.

Based on the background of large data age, customers ' enterprise-level storage requirements with proactive storage thinking and Best-in-class technology, Dell is well prepared for workload-driven business models, extended-scale architectures, cloud platform-level data consolidation, and intelligent analytics, with a new, fully functional, enterprise-wide storage array for midsize enterprise fibre deployments- SC4020. As one of the Dell SC4000 series, the SC4020 array is designed to provide advanced functionality consistent with a large SAN, while maintaining a moderate price and deployment size. New arrays with Fibre Channel connectivity, with Dell EQUALLOGICISCSI Solutions, enable Dell to deliver fully functional arrays to meet midsize storage requirements and network requirements. In addition, the array can scale to 408 TB of raw capacity, support multiple workloads, deliver high-performance, midsize San entry points, or remote/branch office storage solutions for industries and organizations of all sizes. The new array can also interoperate with Dell's mature compellent storage solutions, achieve equivalent performance, intelligently span traditional hard disk-level data, write optimized flash memory (SLC), and read optimized Flash (MLC) drives to help users achieve full flash performance at disk prices.

As a newcomer to storage service providers in recent years, Dell storage does not have a traditional burden, since the date of the birth of Dell's "listening to customer needs" tradition, in an innovative spirit to provide customers with the future End-to-end data liquidity management requirements of storage solutions, and through the acquisition of raw technology, integration technology research and development, Product Portfolio Advantages, leading the industry to bring a series of innovative technologies, such as the industry's most fine-grained storage virtualization [note], the highest benchmark memory pool technology, the best application efficiency of the full flash technology, to help customers on demand