Flash Storage

Here’s a statistic that should cause every CIO unsure about flash storage to pause and rethink: 99% of organizations that have achieved IT transformation are using flash storage. The benefits include:

• Faster performance. Organizations using flash storage collectively report a 36% average increase in speeds, and a 49% improvement in application performance for organizations using all-flash storage.
• Lower OpEx expenses. Companies using flash storage report a 42% reduction in operational costs. With no moving parts, minimal heat output and increased performance density, flash enables organizations to reduce power/cooling costs and to eliminate the need to maintain rising numbers of HDDs and the associated costs for people, storage footprints and cooling.
• Higher utilization. Prior to flash, storage represented the slowest part of the data path and hosts and networks were inevitably waiting on storage to respond to data requests. With flash, servers can process thousands more transactions per second and systems are no longer in a perpetual “wait state.”
• Fewer bugs. Flash storage lets IT teams spend less time debugging performance issues and more time deploying applications, refining architecture or engaged in other strategic tasks.
• Reduced CapEx costs. Thanks to the ongoing decline in the per terabyte cost of flash, companies using flash storage can reduce capital expense of storage infrastructure by an average of 24%.
• Faster decision-making. While big data analytics platforms can produce near real-time business intelligence, they require a level of performance that HDD storage and cloud storage can’t always deliver. Analytics queries made to flash-supported workloads with structured or unstructured data get answers much more quickly, enabling organizations to make better, faster, data-driven decisions than their competitors.
  

PowerMax

PowerMax changes the game for data storage. It is designed with a multi-controller, active/active scale-out architecture and industry standard, end-to-end NVMe. Inline, global dedupe and compression add extreme efficiency to your data center, even as it scales.

• Powerful architecture: True scale-out design, end-to-end NVMe, SCM persistent storage
• Simple operation: Consolidate everything on a single array
• Trusted innovation: Meet the highest levels of automation, AI/ML, data protection and availability - designed for 6-9s in each array

Unity XT

Dell EMC Unity XT All-Flash and Hybrid Flash arrays set new standards for storage with compelling simplicity, all-inclusive software, blazing speed, optimized efficiency, multi-cloud enablement – all in a modern NVMe-ready design – to meet the needs of resource-constrained IT professionals in large or small companies.

• Designed for performance: Gain high-speed access to your data and a modern architecture that is NVMe ready
• Optimized for efficiency: Gain more effective capacity with up to 5:1 data reduction
• Built for multi-cloud: Seamlessly extend storage to the cloud or deploy in the cloud with flexible cloud consumption options

SC Series

SC Series provides companies of any size the technology advantage they need to compete in today’s fast-changing markets. Intelligent All-Flash and hybrid storage solutions offer transformational performance, flexible tiered storage architecture and future-proof value.

• Transformational Performance: Accelerate workloads with high IOPS, low latency storage powered by innovative software designs
• Flexible Architecture: Help your company thrive through change with self-optimizing tiered storage solutions that adapt seamlessly
• Future-Proof Value: Drive down TCO with cost-saving automation, broad ecosystem integrations and world-class support services

XtremIO

With multi-dimensional scalability, in-memory metadata, unmatched storage efficiency, rich application integrated copy services, metadata-aware replication, and unprecedented management simplicity, XtremIO delivers on the promise of a simple, agile, scalable, fully-virtualized data center — all while minimizing infrastructure footprint and TCO.

• Consistent Performance: XtremIO delivers high performance with consistently low latency using the efficiencies of data deduplication.
• Unmatched Efficiency: Inline, all-the-time data deduplication, compression and thin provisioning result in massive storage efficiencies.
• Accelerated Workflows: Application-integrated copy services transform business workflows and accelerate true business agility.

VMAX

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash storage enables organizations to accelerate the pace of business transformation by modernizing operations and driving down operational and capital expense. Data reduction techniques and rapidly declining flash prices have made Dell EMC’s flash storage solutions a highly effective and cost-efficient alternative to HDD storage.

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash storage solutions enable organizations to:

• Consolidate high-demand transaction processing and decision support workloads by leveraging advanced 3D NAND flash.
• Support extreme-growth hybrid cloud environments with consistent 350-microsecond response times at massive scale.
• Process up to 6.7 million IOPS at sub-tms latency using 576 CPU cores and multi-threading technology.
• Accelerate time to deployment with streamlined appliance-based packaging and easy non-disruptive migrations.
• Rely on six-nines availability to protect vital open systems and mainframe information.
• Run rapid backup and restore for SQL, Oracle and Exchange deployments, and backup directly from VMAX to Data Domain to eliminate app server overhead.
• Optimize decision support, application testing and business analytics by creating hundreds of snapshots per volume. Reduce storage footprints by leveraging in-line compression for new or existing VMAX data sets.
  

Dell EMC customers have chosen VMAX All Flash data storage for its many benefits and advantages. The top reasons include:

1. Extreme performance. VMAX All Flash arrays are superfast, using the latest 3D NAND flash technology and FlashBoost to deliver up to 6.7 million IOPS and 150 GB per second.
2. Amazing application response times. VMAX All Flash is architected to process all IOs using amazingly fast cache memory that delivers 350-microsecond response times.
3. Optimal storage efficiency. With the latest in-line compression technology, high-efficiency snaps and zero-space reclaim, VMAX delivers up to 4:1 storage efficiency to significantly reduce the cost per GB and the data center footprint.
4. Mission-critical availability. VMAX All Flash delivers six-nines availability for mission-critical applications, thanks to active-active data center replication, non-disruptive upgrades and no single-points-of-failure architecture.
5. Unmatched data services. A built-in storage hypervisor, data at rest encryption, TimeFinder SnapVX snapshots and SRDF active-active remote replication all support trusted data services such as embedded management and embedded NAS file services.
6. Massive consolidation. By consolidating up to 4 PBe of block, file, open systems, mainframe, and IBM i capacity onto a single platform, VMAX lowers the overall cost of ownership by reducing operating expenses, the physical footprint and power and cooling requirements.
7. Data Domain data protection. Using Dell EMC Data Domain with VMAX deployments eliminates the need for traditional backup applications while delivering the advantages of native full backups.
8. Easy, non-disruptive data migration. Dell EMC’s built-in non-disruptive migration technology enables customers to migrate data and applications in just three steps.
9. Unparalleled security. VMAX All Flash storage secures every drive with data at rest encryption. SnapVX secure snaps prevent inadvertent or malicious deletion of snapshots. And RecoverPoint heterogeneous replication enables more flexible disaster recovery of data storage assets.
   

What is flash storage?
Flash storage is a media for storing data. In contrast to hard disk drives (HDD) that write data to spinning discs, flash storage has no moving parts and uses high-speed, electrically programmable nonvolatile memory (NVME) to write data far more quickly, increasing performance and dramatically reducing the cost per operation.

What is all flash storage?
All-flash storage, or an all-flash array, is a data storage system that contains multiple flash storage drives. Because all-flash storage has no moving parts, it generates less heat, uses less power and requires less maintenance. All-flash storage can provide vastly superior performance, faster data transfer rates, fewer spikes in latency and better disaster recovery.

What is a hybrid flash array?
A hybrid storage system combines flash storage with other lower-cost options to provide a solution that balances performance and economics.