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FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
ORGANISATIONS WITH DECADES WORTH
OF COLD DATA ON LEGACY STORAGE
CAN MIGRATE TO ALL-FLASH ARRAYS.
Hot data is the data you want immediate
access to, often running real-time analysis
or AI protocols on to extract insight and
value. Cold data was simply stored for
recoverability purposes, typically on disk or
even tape storage. Having these different
tiers of storage led to increased complexity,
cost, and inefficiency.
Today, utilising the market’s leading-edge
all-flash technologies, these categories can
be eliminated as all data can be consolidated
into one place, ready for AI and real-time
analysis. Organisations with decades worth
of cold data on legacy storage can migrate
to all-flash arrays, making it available for
immediate AI processing. In this way you
can heat up data that was previously cold,
often uncovering new value and insight
through AI or Machine Learning.
By consolidating your data into one place,
you also maximise many cost savings
including lower energy consumption and
less floor space use, reduced software
licensing fees, and further savings through
deduplication and compression over more
applications and workloads. In addition, you
do not need to deal with the consequences
of data gravity, where data has to be moved
from one data island to another, a lengthy
and often expensive process.
Build your cloud on all-flash storage
Consolidation – Putting more
applications on all-flash storage
The introduction of flash prompted
an evolution of the storage market.
Initially flash was seen as a premium
technology, reserved for tier-1 use cases.
Now flash technology is a must-have and
has eliminated the need to silo data in
different places. Historically, you had hot
and cold data.
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As you move from your first all-flash
applications through consolidation and
toward the all flash cloud, an important
step will be to bridge the virtualisation
gap between your servers and the rest of
your infrastructure, namely storage and
networking. This is another area where your
all-flash architecture can play a critical
role in providing the flexibility, agility and
management simplicity required for a
successful cloud deployment. What are
you trying to accomplish? If you start with
delivering basic cloud-type services, your
must-have list would include:
• The ability to share resources
through simple and automated
processes: Users should be able to
go straight to your on-premi