FEATURE : STORAGE
THE KEY FEATURE OF HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE ABILITY TO COMBINE THE SEPARATE DAS COMPONENTS INTO A SOFTWARE- DEFINABLE POOL OF SHARED STORAGE hybrid storage arrays . Data centre managers , looking for ways to address the energy drain represented by hard drives , are examining flash storage as a way to achieve green computing or green data centre benchmarks .
Another important trend is hyperconverged infrastructure , which combines compute , network , direct-attached storage ( DAS ) and virtualisation resources in a single unit , either as a physical appliance or a software-only solution ready to run on commodity hardware . The key feature of hyper-converged infrastructure is the ability to combine the separate DAS components into a software-definable pool of shared storage .
More enterprises are investing huge amounts of resources into their infrastructures by bringing in storage as an essential requirement to all classes of business . Enterprises need to consider solutions which provide a secure and seamless integration of storage into their existing IT setup . Deployment is also affected by the performance levels and the scalability of the storage . Organisations need to also ensure that the invested solution is cost effective for their data centre .
The enterprise storage market in the Middle East is also growing . The most popular solutions are cloud , virtualisation and software defined storage . The main reasons being they are proven solutions that can be easily integrated with the existing infrastructure and all of them have scalable architecture . These are the main game players in the so called 3rd platform of IT Evolution .
Emerging models Storage Architecture is undergoing drastic changes to cater the new requirement of the enterprise class . The emerging models are unified , scale-up , scale-out and full flash based storage . It has become a mandate that all the storage models should be compatible and should be easily integrated with virtualisation and going forward with cloud and big data solutions . Solid states and hybrid systems are also emerging models wherein they will be gateways to clouds seamlessly . IP will play a big role in connecting these storage platforms .
Flash storage One of the biggest storage trends in 2016 is a higher uptake of flash storage . The adoption of flash based storage with Enterprises is growing tremendously . Data centre managers , looking for ways to address the energy drain represented by hard drives , are examining flash storage as a way to achieve green computing or green data centre benchmarks . Flash drives provide amazing performance and only 20 % of power compared to the SAS and NL SAS Drives .
The virtues of all flash arrays are widely known and generally touted as the best www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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