With Evergreen Storage changing the planning horizon on enterprise storage life cycles, the performance and capacity scalability of configurations will need to be increased.

Given storage efficiency technologies, the effective capability of today’s FlashArray//m well exceeds 1 million IOPS (assuming 100% reads at 4,000 block sizes) and 500TB of usable capacity, but as more customers move to all-flash configurations for all of their primary storage needs, larger systems will be needed over time.