Essential guide to the all-flash array market
Editor's note
Initially, products in the all-flash array market lacked enterprise-class capacity and features such as snapshot, replication and quality of service. As such, all-flash arrays were relegated to accelerating performance of specific applications.
Today, all-flash array capacities, physical characteristics, application, features and endurance now rival those of market-leading hard disk drive arrays and hybrid flash arrays. Costs have also decreased as the price of NAND chips continues to decline. Because of this, some organizations are considering all-flash storage arrays for their Tier-1 data.
However, not all-flash arrays are created equally. Like storage arrays, they come in a variety of price points that offer different capacities, performance levels and baked-in functionality.
This guide to the all-flash array market offers in-depth articles on choosing the right all-flash storage array for your needs. You'll also find a handful of examples of all-flash arrays, including helpful product specifications.
1A sampling of the all-flash array market
The following links are not an exhaustive list of the all-flash array market, but rather a cross-section of available products (accurate as of September 1, 2015).
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EqualLogic PS6210S geared toward SMBs
Dell's flash array is based on a virtualized and modular architecture, and is optimized for tasks such as faster networking, server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), OLTP and other high IOPS needs. Read Now
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EMC's XtremIO all-flash array focused on flash media
The XtremIO scale-out enterprise storage array is designed to improve application performance. It can be managed through a GUI interface, VMware vCenter plug-in, command line interface or REST API. Read Now
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HP's StoreServ 7450 runs 3PAR for the course
HP's 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash storage array is designed for midsize and enterprise shops. Its inline dedupe reduces flash costs by lowering capacity demands without storage pools or post-processing. Read Now
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Hitachi Unified Storage VM offers scalability
The Hitachi Unified Storage VM scalable flash storage array offers 300 TB of raw capacity per system and works with database, analytics, virtual server and virtual desktop environments in the enterprise. Read Now
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IBM's FlashSystem 840 series uses RAID for performance in failure
The IBM FlashSystem 840 series is designed for OLTP, VDI and cloud environments, while the V840 series is an enterprise-level, software-driven series. Both product lines use IBM Variable Stripe RAID and system-wide RAID 5 to prevent data loss in a failure. Read Now
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Violin Memory 6000 Series family fit for enterprises
The Violin 6000 series of flash arrays includes the 6600, 6200 and 6100, and can be used for midsize and enterprise businesses that run larger VDI, big data analytics and other applications. Read Now