At a time of exponential growth of data in the enterprise, IT is facing a critical challenge to increase the performance and responsiveness of their data storage and management. Flash changes the way that data performance is delivered. Learn how implementing the right type of flash delivers true business impact.

1. Balancing Performance, Capacity
and Economics with Flash
At a time of exponential growth of data in the enterprise,
IT is facing a critical challenge to increase the performance
and responsiveness of their data storage and management.
Flash changes the way that data performance is delivered.
Learn how implementing the right type of flash delivers
true business impact.
Data Growth and the
Accompanying Challenges
40%
20%
40% of organizations identify rapid growth
and management of unstructured data as
a challenge.1
Organizations cited annual storage capacity
growth rates up to 20%.2
Rapid growth
Capacity growth
Top IT priorities are managing data growth, enhancing performance and lowering
costs through improved efficiency. 3
Businesses Need Increased Performance and
Capacity to Tackle Data Deluge
70% Improved
90% Improved
More than 70% of IT and storage professionals
indicated that improved performance and
reducing latency as the two top reasons for
implementing flash.4
Flash storage improves response times
by up to 90%.5
How Flash Delivers Business Value
Better IOPS Density
Lower Business Risk
Low Latencies
Enables Business to Go Faster
Lower Power and Cooling Req.
Lower Cost
Choose the Right Flash for Your IT Requirements
Server Flash
Cache storage that provides the fastest
access with the lowest capacity.
All-Flash Array
Expected to grow to $1.6 billion by 2016, this
persistent storage provides submillisecond
access with larger capacity.6
50K
25K
0K
15 Minutes less
+26k Employees
Global Oil Corporation reduced time to
run geological models from 20 minutes
to less than 5 minutes.
A 90-year-old Global Sales and Marketing
Agency for consumer packaged goods realized
the performance benefits of all-flash arrays as
it grew from 14K to 40K global employees,
meeting the company’s demanding and diverse
workload.
Hybrid Array
Traditional Storage with Flash
Intelligent caching solution that provides
submillisecond access for cached data
and leverages HHD for capacity.
Persistent storage with scalable, costeffective capacity
14k Transactions
25% Primarily
Using Hybrid
Arrays
Solid State
Users
50% Using
Hybrid Arrays
Nearly ½ of current solid-state users are
leveraging hybrid arrays this year and ¼
of these organizations consider it to be
their primary implementation type.7
per second
15k Application
moves per month
Global Beauty Products Leader can now
process 14,000 transactions per second and
15,000 application moves per month, with no
human intervention.
There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to Flash. Enterprises need to adopt
an approach that offers support on all levels of the stack with the right mix
of performance, capacity and economics to accelerate business.
1. ESG, 2012 Storage Market Survey
2. ESG, 2012 Storage Market Survey
3. IDC, The Adoption of and Leading Use Cases for Solid State Storage by
Enterprise Customers Sept. 2013
4. NetApp Flash Storage for Dummies
5. IDC, The Adoption of and Leading Use Cases for Solid State Storage by
Enterprise Customers Sept. 2013
6. IDC, The Adoption of and Leading Use Cases for Solid State Storage by
Enterprise Customers Sept. 2013
7. ESG, 2012 Storage Market Survey
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