Disk is Dead: The context for this statement is the long-felt performance gap between storage and the memory and processor resources in a modern data center. While silicon based resources have been shrinking and accelerating along the lines of Moore’s Law, state of the art storage has been based on an almost 60 year old ...

All flash arrays (AFAs) have proven themselves able to meet the requirements of high performance dedicated application environments over the last several years, and enterprise customers are now planning to move more workloads to these platforms over time. Enterprise storage arrays have always been used for dense mixed workload consolidation, and as the cost of ...