FEATURE: STORAGE
THE KEY FEATURE OF HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE ABILITY TO COMBINE THE SEPARATE DAS COMPONENTS INTO A SOFTWARE- DEFINABLE POOL OF SHARED STORAGE hybrid storage arrays. Data centre managers, looking for ways to address the energy drain represented by hard drives, are examining flash storage as a way to achieve green computing or green data centre benchmarks.
Another important trend is hyperconverged infrastructure, which combines compute, network, direct-attached storage( DAS) and virtualisation resources in a single unit, either as a physical appliance or a software-only solution ready to run on commodity hardware. The key feature of hyper-converged infrastructure is the ability to combine the separate DAS components into a software-definable pool of shared storage.
More enterprises are investing huge amounts of resources into their infrastructures by bringing in storage as an essential requirement to all classes of business. Enterprises need to consider solutions which provide a secure and seamless integration of storage into their existing IT setup. Deployment is also affected by the performance levels and the scalability of the storage. Organisations need to also ensure that the invested solution is cost effective for their data centre.
The enterprise storage market in the Middle East is also growing. The most popular solutions are cloud, virtualisation and software defined storage. The main reasons being they are proven solutions that can be easily integrated with the existing infrastructure and all of them have scalable architecture. These are the main game players in the so called 3rd platform of IT Evolution.
Emerging models Storage Architecture is undergoing drastic changes to cater the new requirement of the enterprise class. The emerging models are unified, scale-up, scale-out and full flash based storage. It has become a mandate that all the storage models should be compatible and should be easily integrated with virtualisation and going forward with cloud and big data solutions. Solid states and hybrid systems are also emerging models wherein they will be gateways to clouds seamlessly. IP will play a big role in connecting these storage platforms.
Flash storage One of the biggest storage trends in 2016 is a higher uptake of flash storage. The adoption of flash based storage with Enterprises is growing tremendously. Data centre managers, looking for ways to address the energy drain represented by hard drives, are examining flash storage as a way to achieve green computing or green data centre benchmarks. Flash drives provide amazing performance and only 20 % of power compared to the SAS and NL SAS Drives.
The virtues of all flash arrays are widely known and generally touted as the best www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO
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