It’s flash storage again - IDC says it’s soon becoming “normality”

A lot of my recent blogs focused on the topic of flash storage. Some people get really bored with me writing about flash. “Chris, it’s just another storage media. Yes much faster so good for some specific apps, but why so much buzz around disk drives?”

My answer to these people is simple: It’s not about price/performance for a few specific apps. It’s about avoiding the need to open another data centre. It’s about cutting costs for power and cooling by one-fourth or more. 

Just think of it: HP 3PAR StoreServ offers 1.92TB SSDs drives with a full 5-year warranty. I’m sure there will even be bigger drives as SSD vendors drive density to new levels. No further roadmap info here! But I can share some insights from a recent IDC white paper: From Flash to Value — How External Solid State Arrays Become a Normality among European Customers. Register to access the full text of the paper.