Evaluate the Role of Solid State in the Next Storage Purchase

Do not fill in this field

Enter no text in this field

Get Instant Access
to This Blueprint

Business Email

Full Name

Company

Phone

Job Title

Currently there are no best practices surrounding solid state storage. Most organizations are adding solid state storage drives (SSDs) and/or flash cache (PCIe-based flash) to storage arrays because they trust traditional storage vendors and they don’t want to break with the traditional model.
There are a lot of non-traditional storage vendors that have found solid use cases and solutions using flash storage, but it’s difficult to get straight and trusted answers to classes of these products and how they shake out in the larger market.
It can be difficult to determine what type of flash storage is best suited for your environment and requirements, as there are many ways to deploy flash, including PCIe-based flash, combined flash-and-HDD arrays, and all-flash arrays.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Each method of deploying flash storage has its advantages and disadvantages. It is critical to understand which arrangement best suits your needs.
Flash is often perceived as expensive, however, it offers a number of advantages, including higher input/output operations per second (IOPs) performance over disk storage. The advantages must be weighed against the greater capital cost.
It is essential to understand both the limitations of the technology and the probable future growth of your infrastructure to ensure you are purchasing a solution that will continue to successfully meet your needs.

Impact and Result

Flash works best with in-demand applications that benefit from its speed and latency advantages, but might be overkill for data that spends most of its time at rest.
Understand where flash will work best for your specific use case and avoid over-paying for more than you need.
Ask the right questions of flash vendors when evaluating solid state storage in order to get the right flash solution and better manage your infrastructure as a whole.

Evaluate the Role of Solid State in the Next Storage Purchase Research & Tools

1. Evaluate flash storage vendors and their product capabilities

Select the most appropriate offering for business needs at a competitive price point.

2. Evaluate flash storage vendors and their product capabilities

Select the most appropriate offering for business needs at a competitive price point.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Table of Contents

Talk to an Analyst

Our analyst calls are focused on helping our members use the research we produce, and our experts will guide you to successful project completion.

Book an Analyst Call on This Topic

You can start as early as tomorrow morning. Our analysts will explain the process during your first call.

Get Advice From a Subject Matter Expert

Each call will focus on explaining the material and helping you to plan your project, interpret and analyze the results of each project step, and set the direction for your next project step.