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Flash storage is enabling IT transformation for organizations of every size. All-flash storage offers a wide variety of benefits from lowering latency and increasing IOPS per drive to consolidating workloads, making applications such as AI a reality, shrinking hardware footprints, minimizing power consumption and reducing the cost of management.

While many companies are already realizing the advantages that flash storage offers, others are not sure the benefits always outweigh the cost. Dell provides a family of all-flash arrays that are designed to solve the challenge of embracing a modernized flash-centric data center while simplifying, automating and consolidating IT operations cost-effectively.

Why Flash Storage is a Game-Changer

Here’s a statistic 99% of organizations that have achieved IT transformation are using flash storage. The benefits include:

Faster performance.

Organizations using flash storage collectively report significant improvements in application performance allowing them to use their data to drive new business value.

Lower OpEx expenses.

Companies using flash storage report significant reductions 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 no longer incur repeated “wait states.”

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 their capital expense of storage infrastructure.

Faster decision-making.

While big data analytics platforms can produce near real-time business intelligence and AI requires immediate response, they require a level of performance that HDD storage and cloud storage can’t always deliver. Analytics and AI 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.

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Dell Delivers all Flash Storage at Scale

Dell Technologies offers data storage systems designed with multi-controllers, active/active scale-out architectures and industry standard, end-to-end NVMe. Inline dedupe and compression adding efficiencies to your data center, even as the solutions scales.

These solutions provide powerful architectures that are performance optimized, deliver great storage efficiency and provide features and capabilities designed to take full advantage of the speed of flash technology.

Future-Proof your Flash Storage Solution

For customers concerned about protecting their technology investments and ensuring that solutions will deliver on future requirements, Dell offers Future-Proof Program which is designed to maximize your investments across Dell’s storage, data protection, HCI, networking and server solutions. The Future-Proof Program optimizes your IT lifecycle through a series of offers, assurances and guarantees, enabling you to focus on business priorities.

The Future-Proof Program includes:

A three-year satisfaction guarantee.

Storage data reduction and data protection deduplication guarantees.

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Opportunity to recycle storage and server equipment at no additional cost.

Flexible payment solutions.

Flash storage arrays: consolidating storage for enhanced performance

A flash storage array is a system that contains multiple flash storage drives, offering a consolidated and high-performance storage solution. These arrays are especially beneficial for applications requiring high-speed data access, such as real-time analytics, AI, and high-performance computing.

Flash storage arrays provide organizations with the ability to store vast amounts of data while ensuring quick access times. This balance between capacity and speed is what makes them a preferred choice for many enterprise storage solutions.

Flash storage solutions: tailored to modern enterprise needs

Flash storage solutions refer to a comprehensive approach to storing data using flash technology. These solutions can range from individual flash drives to complex flash storage arrays designed for enterprise-level applications. The primary advantage of flash storage solutions is their ability to offer rapid data access speeds, making them ideal for applications that require real-time data processing.

Flash Storage FAQs

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.

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.

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

Flash storage refers to any storage device that uses flash memory to retain data, such as SSDs or USB drives. Flash array, on the other hand, is a system that contains multiple flash storage drives, offering a consolidated storage solution with high performance.

Enterprise flash storage solutions are designed to meet the demands of large organizations. They offer higher performance, reliability, and scalability compared to consumer-grade flash storage. These solutions are optimized for heavy workloads, ensuring smooth operations even under intense data access scenarios.

Flash technology allows for instantaneous data access. Unlike HDDs, where a mechanical arm has to physically locate data on a spinning disk, flash storage devices can access data directly from any location on the device, resulting in significantly faster data retrieval speeds.

In terms of physical durability, flash storage is more reliable because it lacks moving parts, making it less susceptible to physical damage. However, flash storage devices have a finite number of write and erase cycles, after which they might start to fail. It's essential to monitor the health of flash storage devices and replace them when necessary.

Flash storage arrays offer a consolidated storage solution with high performance. They can handle vast amounts of data while ensuring quick access times, making them ideal for enterprise applications that require real-time data processing.

Flash storage solutions provide businesses with faster data access speeds, reduced power consumption, and increased reliability. This can lead to improved operational efficiency, cost savings, and a competitive edge in data-driven industries.

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