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WITHOUT ALL-
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WITHOUT A
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ALL-FLASH
ARCHITECTURE,
THE CLOUD FALLS
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flash storage, without a flexible and scalable
all-flash architecture, the cloud falls apart.
The performance, cost efficiencies, simplicity,
agility and scalability you need cannot be
achieved without all-flash storage as the
cornerstone of your data-centric architecture.
So how do you get there from here? The first
thing to recognise is that moving to the all-
flash cloud is not a one-step, “rip everything
out and start all over again” endeavour.
Rather, it is a process that will take place over
time, in three distinct stages:
Putting your first applications on all-
flash storage
Every organisation has specific applications
and workloads, such as databases
supporting online transaction processing
solutions for e-commerce, where the
performance challenges of spinning disk
storage are so difficult to overcome that
you must modernise the underlying storage
infrastructure to avoid putting your business
at risk.
In addition to existing applications that
may already be causing you pain, there are
newer workloads that perhaps do not have
an established infrastructure and demand
the performance, resiliency, scalability and
management simplicity of all-flash storage.
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a
perfect example of this type of workload:
Because of the ‘bursty’ nature of VDI
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