TECH TALK
technology that stores your data must
be absolutely rock solid. The way your
storage works in the background,
the way software updates, the way
upgrades are implemented – all of it
must be executed rapidly, but more
importantly, without impacting your
production environments.
At the same time, given the rising
number of data theft and ransomware
attacks, it is imperative that the storage
solution you deploy includes inline,
always-on encryption for data at rest.
With this, in addition to delivering
the ultra-robust, high availability that
is the lifeblood of your organisation
and powering customer demand for
digital services, your data will also be
incredibly secure, in line with local and
industry regulations.
Christian Putz, Director, EEMEA,
Pure Storage
banking isn’t quick enough, and online
comparison sites aren’t tailored enough
to deliver the rapid, highly personalised
answers customers are seeking.
Speed is of the essence. The speed at
which your front end works is utterly
reliant on your storage performance. But
you can’t keep adding storage capacity
to individual databases, or application
workloads – that’s just adding cost. And
even if that’s not a problem now, what
about the time it will take to manage a
sprawling storage estate?
The answer is all-flash storage.
Depending on the vendor you choose to
partner with, all-flash solutions are 10x
faster on both IOPs and latency. They’re
also 10x more efficient in terms of power,
space and cooling. With the right all-
flash storage solution in place, you can
improve customer experience, increase
operational efficiency and transform
existing business processes without
breaking the bank (pun intended)!
Build in rock solid performance
from the ground up
In today’s always-on economy where
business never stops and the speed
of transactions and interactions
are accelerating exponentially, the
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Focus on value to bring
down costs
By centralising your storage around
one type of flash technology, not only
will you simplify data centre IT and
add incredible flexibility to deal with
both physical and virtual environments,
you will also make some incredibly
important savings.
By partnering with vendors that offer
perpetual upgrade programmes
that are designed to guarantee your
effective capacity with flash media
that can consolidate and modernise
as your organisation grows, you can
avoid vendor dictated upgrade cycles,
downtime and cumbersome data
migrations. With these ‘Evergreen’
programs, there is continually refreshed
software and an extended value
lifecycle – with no requirement to
repurchase TBs you already own, and
exceptional performance and value
for more than 10 years. Things are just
as straightforward when it comes to
maintenance. You just pay one, simple
flat renewal to update performance,
scale and add features.
Make storage the front seat
driver of innovation
Like most organisations in the region,
there is a good chance that you are
working through your own personal
journey to the cloud, which is why it is
imperative to partner with a vendor that
offers you a two-product route to building
your own all-flash cloud platform.
Freeing you to develop such a scalable,
simple, high-performance storage
environment can help you underpin
your front office innovations in
customer experience, productivity
tools and business processes, with
a storage system capable of driving
transformation. As we have already
seen, with new profit-thirsty competitors
entering all areas of the services sector,
it’s crucial that IT leaders have sensible,
practical and cost-effective answers
to the question of how to ride the
innovation curve by using data more
effectively than anyone else.
Quite simply, the time has now come
to consider storage to be one of your
most strategically powerful assets. With
all-flash you have the means to create
a high-performance, highly resilient,
highly affordable foundation on which
to succeed in the digital economy. With
the right all-flash solution, you can
drive more business value – achieving
considerable ROI in just a few short
weeks – while inverting IT spend. n
“With the right
all-flash storage
solution in
place, you can
improve customer
experience,
increase
operational
efficiency and
transform existing
business processes
without breaking
the bank.”
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