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MAKING THE JOURNEY
TO THE ALL-FLASH CLOUD
Enterprise IT leaders are facing critical decisions on how
to build a data-centric IT infrastructure that will allow
them to harness the value of their data. Christian Putz,
Director, Emerging Markets, EMEA, at Pure Storage,
explains why an underlying all-flash cloud strategy will
be a crucial component of such an endeavour.
T
he cloud should be considered in any
modern storage strategy, and while
the advantages of cloud models –
simple, on-demand, elastic, and a driver for
innovation – are beyond compelling, the
path a company should take to a cloud-
first strategy is not always easy to define.
Private, public or multi-cloud, in conjunction
with software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings,
will deliver different benefits as part of a
successful enterprise cloud strategy.
In addition, I believe that as data centre and
application architectures change over the
next decade, the future is in Data-Centric
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Architecture (DCA). The concept is that
tomorrow’s architecture will be centred
around a broadly-shared set of data services,
which enable data to be freely shared by
traditional and new web scale applications.
Enterprise IT leaders are facing critical
decisions on how to build a DCA that will
allow them to harness the value of their
data, and their underlying cloud strategy
will be a crucial component to success.
While considering the overall architecture
and future of your cloud, there is one key
step that should be part of any strategy:
standardise on all-flash storage. Without all-
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THE PATH A
COMPANY
SHOULD TAKE TO
A CLOUD-FIRST
STRATEGY IS NOT
ALWAYS EASY TO
DEFINE.
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